Media Figure Quotes

I would love to interview Sean Spicer.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.

Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the attack dog kept on a tight leash and brought out on special occasions to hiss and to menace.

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.

Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don't know him.

I am not going to say I have never spoken with Bill Simmons because I have. I respect him greatly.

We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal.

I was dreaming of Craig Carton.

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.

I love Holly Willoughby on 'This Morning.'

I love David Hasselhoff!

There's no point in doing an intelligent quiz with me sitting opposite Kerry Katona.

Is Paris Hilton even an actress? I'm thinking no.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

I'd quite like to put Noel Edmonds who was on the television and radio in a compartment and remember all that with great fondness and gratitude but consign it to history.