Alexandra Kerry Quotes

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.

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

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

Please pardon me for suggesting that if the papers, like yours, which heretofore have persistently garbled, and misrepresented what I have said, will now fully and fairly place it before their readers, there can be no further misunderstanding…

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

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

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

I wouldn’t mind having the proceedings of the court sent out on television covering it gavel to gavel. But by the time most of the media do their editing and broadcasting, I’m afraid that the public will see an atypical sampling of the court. It will misinform the public rather than inform.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

The press creates a caricature.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.