Rock Hudson Quotes

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

The public are not stupid.

Please pardon me for suggesting that if the papers, like yours, which heretofore have persistently garbled, and misrepresented what I have said, will now fully and fairly place it before their readers, there can be no further misunderstanding…

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.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.