Marianne Faithfull Quotes

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

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.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

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

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.