Joanna Lumley Quotes

I get along fine with the press.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things in this world that you had to do, and that was die and pay taxes. Now I know that you've got to talk to media. And I hate it.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.