Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

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 think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

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.

I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

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.

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

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

Islam has a negative outlook on it around the world based on what the media tries to show. They not showing the peace.

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

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

Nobody who knows me has ever thought I was a racist, bigot, all of this stuff. All of a sudden I'm on the radio and I become one, if you listen to liberal critics. I'm a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. I'm a hater and all of this stuff. I'm none of those things and never have been. It's all because of my political views.

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

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.