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"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."
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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."

"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."

"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."

"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."

"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."

"A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better."
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"Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good."

"Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country."

"So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?"

"I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good."

"Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated."

"I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people."

"Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community."

"No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed."

"I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film."
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