Theodore White Quotes

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

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.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

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

I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'

The white hot publicity that came from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.