Tom Green Quotes

Everybody wants a sensational story.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

People like scandals.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

If you say a more outrageous thing than everyone else that day, you're going to get the headlines.

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

Negativity sells.

Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.

Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

… the sickest political program to be conceived since television became a factor … it appeals to the prurient and prejudiced in a fashion which makes a mockery of its pretension to be speaking for moral conduct.

Meese was a sleaze.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

Scandal is news with a very human face, interesting to a high percentage of the American public.

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

The easiest way to get on television these days is to be extremely rude.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.