Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

Headlines twice the size of the events.

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

Please pardon me for suggesting that if the papers, like yours, which heretofore have persistently garbled, and misrepresented what I have said, will now fully and fairly place it before their readers, there can be no further misunderstanding…

Reality bears no relationship to the super-heated rhetoric.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

Be it true or false, so it be news.