quotations about tabloids
My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids!
JENNIFER ANISTON
"Jennifer Aniston Shares Her Health and Beauty Secrets", Self Magazine, March 18, 2014
This year, when someone inevitably has sex with someone else, and the tabloids are once again shocked and horrified that two horny, happy people have done something that most of us do every so often, it might be worth wondering why we're all so shocked and fascinated.
DAISY BUCHANAN
"Love Island Isn't Just About Sex, We're Watching It For The Old Fashioned Romance", The Debrief, June 5, 2017
Tabloids have no regard for truth, they express no concern for the people they write their fictional stories about. No regard for children or families of those they print their stories about. What they write is simply to sell a story similar to Steven King, Clive Barker, or Anne Rice.
SHAWN HENNING
Michael Jackson: We Love You More
I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT
"Seann William Scott Is A 'Role Model'", Parade Magazine, October 31, 2008
I think it would be funny to do a compilation of those headlines. Let's assume these characters we play in the tabloids are real people. I would love to take them to a shrink and have them analyzed.
JUSTIN THEROUX
"Jennifer Aniston to Ditch Justin Theroux for Brad?", Inquisitr, June 24, 2017
From years of experience, I've learned tabloid practices, however dangerous, will not change, at least not any time soon. What can change is our awareness and reaction to the toxic messages buried within these seemingly harmless stories served up as truth and shaping our ideas of who we are. We get to decide how much we buy into what's being served up, and maybe some day the tabloids will be forced to see the world through a different, more humanized lens because consumers have just stopped buying the bullshit.
JENNIFER ANISTON
"For the Record", Huffington Post, July 12, 2016
Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
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
interview, IndieWire, July 13, 2011
Some people ... live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
JENSEN ACKLES
Supernatural Magazine, December 2013
The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.
DAVID MELLOR
London Independent, November 3, 1992
What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
BEN AFFLECK
Details Magazine, November 2007
I used to tell myself that tabloids were like comic books, not to be taken seriously, just a soap opera for people to follow when they need a distraction. But I really can't tell myself that anymore because the reality is the stalking and objectification I've experienced first-hand, going on decades now, reflects the warped way we calculate a woman's worth.
JENNIFER ANISTON
"For the Record", Huffington Post, July 12, 2016
I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.
NICK DENTON
"Nick Denton's Own Employees Give Him the Gawker Treatment", New York Magazine, October 11, 2010
At least I've never sold my story. I've had countless offers but I'd rather be in a bedsit council flat than splashed all over Hello! or the tabloids. I really would, I have a responsibility to my band and my children as well. I don't believe in it, I'm never ever tempted.
LISA MOORISH
"A Life on the Edge", The Guardian, August 20, 2004
Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
TAYLOR MOMSEN
"Taylor Momsen moans about the media", Cosmopolitan, March 25, 2011
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
JAMES WOLCOTT
attributed, Psychology Today, January 27, 2015
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
Parade Magazine, March 11, 2007
Two-headed baby stories are particularly appealing to that strange emotional mix--that unique blend of sideshow prurience and maternal compassion--that the tabloids are designed to exploit.
HAROLD SCHECHTER
The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art
The studios protected the artists because their image was so important, but there was a lot of debauchery and decadence, absolutely. People were doing drugs and partying like crazy. But when you look at the cinema in that period, it was so beautiful, so glamorous. You wanted to be those people. Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, "OK, they're just like us." Movie stars then were real movie stars; they were intangible.
PENELOPE ANN MILLER
"'The Artist' Star Penelope Ann Miller: 'It's A Love Letter To Cinema'", Huffington Post, November 26, 2011
Tabloids are not unique but simply one more supplier of images for the intertextual hall of mirrors.
S. ELIZABETH BIRD
For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids