Penny Junor Quotes

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

If you are not in the media today, then you do not exist.

The more publicized the presidency the less powerful the office.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.

With Hef it was a relationship. It's the world that made a big thing out of it.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

A lot of celebrities are afraid of being out of sight, out of mind. I'm the complete opposite.

We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

I never read anything that's written about me.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

The less Hillary Clinton speaks, the less she's seen, the higher her numbers go.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I didn't even think about it when I read the script and then shooting their movie and someone was like "boy, press is going to be fun". And I didn't really know what they were talking about because to me it's just a film shows it as an extremely viable option which is obviously the most important thing for young individuals.

I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.

Hillary Clinton has this problem. The more she's seen, the more she's heard, the worse she does. This is not arguable.