Jamie Bell Quotes

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I used to be a journalist.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

My father was a journalist.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I started as a print reporter.

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.