We got killed in Newsweek.
Should I give up my career at this point in my life and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket?
I thought I’d be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris. It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.
It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.
If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist.
[On his first job in the mailroom of William Morris a casting agency] It was the first time in the my life that I thought ‘I can do that.’
You can’t interview my brother! We can call this thing off – right now!
If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
With the press there is no ‘off the record’.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
[on Megyn Kelly] You could see there was bloody coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
The media is really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.
You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.
Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It’s in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.
We want someone to bring us the news.
Matt Drudge is a great gentleman, who really – he’s got an ability to capture stories that people want to see
I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
