Paige VanZant Quotes

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

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

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

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

Television’s a funny thing. You can be edited in ways that makes you appear to say what you didn’t say.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

I think it's really tough being in Donald Trump's shoes, when you've got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

There's so many different medias on the internet, taking it from the big medias and making their own little article out of that and changing it into something that it isn't. There's never one story from an interview, there's always so many different stories.