Anna Kendrick Quotes

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

I would say to people of a libertarian conservative position on an issue, do not do a taped interview. You're going to come out looking really bad. No matter what you say, no matter how eloquently you answer a question, your answer is not going to be what you said.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

It's particularly important for a young woman to be in control of her image - to a certain extent. I mean, there's only so much you can do, because people take photos with you and then all of a sudden they pop up all over the place, they're completely out of context and you have no control over how they're used.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

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.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

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.

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

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

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.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Television’s a funny thing. You can be edited in ways that makes you appear to say what you didn’t say.

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

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.