John Malkovich Quotes

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

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

There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

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

I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.

The [TV evening] news usually defines the candidate for the public.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The media can make or break an administration.