Journalist Quotes

I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.

I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

I don’t trust a lot of journalists.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I’m upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

My sense, and I’m sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.