Zach Braff Quotes

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.

Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

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.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

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 am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

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

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

There's a perception in certain parts of the media that I love 'bling.' I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don't understand where that comes from.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

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

Media is not supporting me. They're saying that I want to marry Imran Khan, but I'm already married. This is wrong. What about my self-worth? My identity? I am a social media sensation. I am a fashion icon.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

You can't control the way people are going to describe you.

Somebody I love and have a huge amount of respect for once told me something that, to this day, I don't really think I understand. It was probably toward the end of Harry Potter, and they were talking to me about afterwards and that kind of stuff. And they were saying, "You need to think of yourself as a brand and you need to protect that brand." I just don't understand what that really means in terms of being an actor, and I also think I would find that a slightly soul-destroying way to look at myself.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason.

My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things.