I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
Never trust a journalist.
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker. ” “There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum. “Really? What do you call them?” “Alcoholics.
Bad manners make a journalist.
I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].
Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.
Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
. . . I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. 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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.