Michael Bay Quotes

For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.

The media are a bunch of maggots…. I don't smoke crack cocaine!

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

Invariably, when people read the headline about Martin Shkreli, they hate Martin Shkreli. When they get to know Martin Shkreli, they love Martin Shkreli.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.