Tabloid Quotes

#1. It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

John Byrne

#2. My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about - what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

Chelsea Handler

#3. It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

Daisy Berkowitz

#4. First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Errol Morris

#5. These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Scarlett Johansson

#6. If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

Dasha Zhukova

#7. an Underground train roared and rattled, driving a ghost-wind along the platform, which scattered a copy of the tabloid Sun into its component pages, four-colour breasts and black and white invective scurrying

Neil Gaiman

#8. A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

Anthony Holden

#9. It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#10. In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

Lewis H. Lapham

#11. Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

Derek Blasberg

#12. The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

Nick Davies

#13. Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

Cheryl Tiegs

#14. As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

Rachel Zoe

#15. What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

James Wolcott

#16. My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

Mika.

#17. On this subject, U.S. Air Force spokesman James W. Moseley argued, "Those tabloid papers and cult magazines have been raving about this stuff for years, and it's just not true!

Gene Steinberg

#18. I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.

J. Merridew

#19. In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

Eddie Izzard

#20. It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

Lauren Holly

#21. I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

Pete Hamill

#22. Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Elizabeth Edwards

#23. My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Pauley Perrette

#24. I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.

Zach Braff

#25. A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Errol Morris

#26. Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

Adrian Grenier

#27. So Aphrodite married Hephaestus and the celebrity ship Aphrophaestus completely dominated Olympian tabloid news for like a thousand years. Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.

Rick Riordan

#28. You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

Miranda Otto

#29. I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.

Al Sharpton

#30. You may have seen have seen me in such places as your local market in a tabloid.

Tony Romo

#31. I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

Kate Winslet

#32. A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Calista Flockhart

#33. Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.

Megan Fox

#34. I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

Nick Denton

#35. Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

Michael Jackson

#36. I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

LeAnn Rimes

#37. Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Arthur Smith

#38. Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Julian Assange

#39. There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

Pete Hamill

#40. We define what tabloid is. We're the granddaddy of all tabloids.

Mike Walker

#41. Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we're hoping to better.

Jon Ronson

#42. The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump's henchmen, and I don't think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.

Ted Cruz

#43. I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

Caitlin Moran

#44. Mere tabloid journalists, obliged to choose between the word of a Tory MP and that of a common prostitue, have been far too stupid to see that you can put your mortgage on the latter being true.

William Donaldson

#45. When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

Frederick Lenz

#46. And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.

Wayne Elise

#47. Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.

Connie Chung

#48. I think there is some truth to publicity stunts that might get you press like that. It's so hilarious because now every time I walk by the tabloid stands and look at the tabloids it makes me kind of wonder like what's really going on.

Simon Rex

#49. Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

Tony Benn

#50. No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

Caroline Polachek

#51. The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.

Jennifer Lawrence

#52. Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always" ...

Mira Grant

#53. There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

Damian Lewis

#54. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#55. report that because the tabloid in question

Dickie Arbiter

#56. For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

Clive Owen

#57. It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

David Levithan

#58. I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

Christina Ricci

#59. I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people.

Gisele Bundchen

#60. A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Errol Morris

#61. Tabloid stuff just offends.

William Shatner

#62. There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

Ralph Fiennes

#63. Let's face the reality that if OJ Simpson had been poor or even lower-middle-class there would have been no media attention. Justice was never a central issue. Our nation's tabloid passion to know about the lives of the rich made class a starting point.

Bell Hooks

#64. In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#65. America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Alveda King

#66. I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.

Cory Monteith

#67. The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

LeAnn Rimes

#68. (An astrologer of a London tabloid was once fired by means of a letter from his editor which began, "As you will no doubt have foreseen.")

Christopher Hitchens

#69. I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

Ralph Macchio

#70. Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

Diablo Cody

#71. We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

Alana Stewart

#72. My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

Sienna Miller

#73. I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines-never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news-trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

Scarlett Johansson

#74. You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

Pete Hamill

#75. I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line.

Simi Sunny

#76. Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Jonah Goldberg

#77. The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

Sara Sheridan

#78. A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera - and bills to pay.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#79. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde

#80. She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.

Pete Hamill