Diana Ross Quotes

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you're not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

There is growing use of government intrusion into your creative space…. The government is able to see more deeply into our intellectual lives.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

I don’t care what the newspapers write about me. My constituents can’t even read. But get rid of those damn pictures [political cartoons]

I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.

I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.

I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?'

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

I have a no-kids policy on my website, meaning I won't publish paparazzi photos of celebrity children. I'll only post photos that celebrities themselves share on social media, or if the kids are photographed at a red carpet event.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

If we can't have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won't at some point be made public, then we can't have private lives. And if we can't have private lives, then we're not really free people.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.