Harry S. Truman Quotes

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

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

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

We in the media have glass jaws. We throw punches at everyone else, and the first time that they hit back, we go down.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

I'm not the first girl to get into controversy.

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

I get so much backlash in Hollywood.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

I find it's too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we're being well-defended, of exactly what we're doing. When someone tells us something we're doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can't read them.

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.