Quotes About Press Conferences

#1. Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Kenneth Langone

#2. Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Joel Silver

#3. I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?

Sarah Stillman

#4. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

Robert Montgomery Knight

#5. We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

Wadah Khanfar

#6. Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

Gene Simmons

#7. If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Andy Roddick

#8. We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.

Narendra Modi

#9. Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

Brian De Palma

#10. Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

Megan Alexander

#11. I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Chris Evert

#12. I don't know anything about press conferences."
"Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

Cory Doctorow

#13. My comfort zone is press conferences.

Zach Galifianakis

#14. In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

Ken Starr

#15. I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Andy Roddick

#16. The secret of Caleb's life is found in a phrase that's repeated six times in Scripture: He wholly followed the LORD God of Israel

Warren W. Wiersbe

#17. I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Al Sharpton

#18. There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

Cher

#19. My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.'

Melky Cabrera

#20. I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

Mark Batterson

#21. Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

Kirsten Dunst

#22. Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.

William Monahan

#23. I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference.

Dennis Miller

#24. One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

Stephen King

#25. You can only do righteous acts and good deed by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Dreams are for the dreamers. Goals are for achievers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#27. You know ... sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this ... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.

Steven Tyler

#28. You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

Meryl Streep

#29. For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent ... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Herbert Schiller