Twinkle Khanna Quotes

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'

That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.'

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

What reporters may increasingly see as a necessity, readers see as a scourge.

Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.

I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.

I can't comment on every article in the newspapers.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.

We need more honesty out there, but it is hard when you see what the media does to someone who is trying to be honest.

So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

There's not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.