Ronnie Wood Quotes

I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

In all my years I don't think I've ever said anything nice about Dusty Rhodes to any member of the media.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

People say that I do things for publicity. But I will do the things I do as long as I have media support.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

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.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vampire Diaries,' and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them.