Henry Paulson Quotes

Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

The more publicized the presidency the less powerful the office.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

I just like to be seen for the hard-working actress that I am and not for a bunch of extraneous press.

If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.

I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly doing television.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

I don't want to be in the news for anything negative.

I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

I hate controversies and want to be in the news for the right reasons.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.