Walter Lippmann Quotes

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

My image is the creation of media.

My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

I've never been able to control my public image.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

The media can make or break an administration.

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

The media has had its fun with me.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

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 press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.