Gail Collins Quotes

The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

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

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

Controversy sells books.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

The day of the press statement has gone.

I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

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

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.