Tom Coughlin Quotes

I get along fine with the press.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

As an actor, you can't just be in the film. You're also in charge of selling it, and so you have to sell yourself, and you have to be very political and make sure to not say the wrong things. It's exhausting.

For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

A lot of these players, if you listen to the Islanders or the Rangers, they get interviewed in the locker room right after the game, it's very structured answers. They're very protected.

I'd like to have a little better relationship with the media. It's just that I don't think the media is comfortable with me.

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Donald Trump is not intimidated by the media, and he's not frightened by them, and in fact he loves toying with them. You know, while they're sitting there wringing their hands and taking things so seriously and it's the end of the world, Trump is laughing and having the greatest time.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

Actors should never give interviews.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.