Andrew Thomas Quotes

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

The media has had its fun with me.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

It is sometimes difficult to understand the intensity of our public critics. Criticism of our efficiency is one thing, criticism of our responsibility quite another… We are an important arm of government, a legitimate object of public concern …. I find it most painful, however, when public debate lessens our usefulness to the nation by casting doubt on our integrity and objectivity. If we are not believed, we have no purpose.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.

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

With my name, there's been a lot of negativity around it. I'll be real. I understand it.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

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