Wanderlei Silva Quotes

I think the fact that my case was so sensationalized is because I am a white woman.

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

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

You have never had fair press in America.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

What is this life by which you, who exist still incomplete, count for more than I, who exist complete already? What is this respect for you that removes respect for me? What is this right of yours to exist that takes no account of my right to exist?

The press creates a caricature.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.

I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like 'White Hope.' What about other guys like Tex Cobb - they never had those labels?

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.

I think, in the media, Christians are the butt of every joke, or they are portrayed running around condemning everyone to Hell.

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.