Charlie Sheen Quotes

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

The idea of going to New York for five days and kinda being paraded around by the NFL as they make money off your every step, and the whole purpose is just for publicity for me to stand there in a suit and go, 'Look at me everybody!'... That sounds horrible.

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

You can't trust anybody with power.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Misery sells newspapers.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

You can say something from a public toilet and the whole world will know because the media will be there.

Is there any way we can screw him?

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

If any female - or male - does something in order to get 'likes' on their video or to get fans, they're being exploited, and they're actually selling out to a certain extent.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.