“Pap was right, the fans did want me to give them a magical moment, to let their imaginations soar, and believe that anything was possible. Win or lose, they did come back to see a floppy sock kid with the best of them.”
Tom Lester - Pete as adult

“I'm to be examined, undressed, and generally humiliated at 15 cents a copy.”

Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement - Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania. Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press. "The Unapproachable Miss Lord", "The Philadelphia Story".

Henry Daniell - Sidney Kidd

“In the old days, we had the rack. Nowadays, we have the press.”
Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern

“Like others with tiny bullets hidden in their skulls, Thomas Ince held on unconscious for 2 days before dying in his own bed. There was plenty of misinformation in the days following his death, much of it coming from the Hearst press machine. Which inexplicably reported that Ince was stricken unconscious while visiting Hearst at his upstate ranch.”
Joanna Lumley - Elinor Glyn