Lee Marvin Quotes

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

My career isn't gonna screetch to a halt because some guy in Westbury filmed ten minutes of the show. "Well, we were gonna give you the sitcom but saw that bit you did about the Mormons in Westbury, so get outta here."

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

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

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

The press creates a caricature.

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.

I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.