Martin Bashir Quotes

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

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

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

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

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

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.

In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.

It's so disappointing that I've become a tabloid story.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

I don't want to be in the news for anything negative.

You never really see me, unless its accidental, in the tabloids or any of those magazines.

The media has had its fun with me.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.