News quotes

“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
Jerry Seinfeld

“- Mrs. Montenegro: Mr. Peckinpaugh, I think I have some information regarding the untimely death of your late, deceased, murdered partner.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Who is this?
- Mrs. Montenegro: As the Chinese say, never mind. We must be careful; I'm being watched. Can we meet in your office in fifteen minutes?
- Lou Peckinpaugh: All right. What time...” (continue)(continue reading)
Madeline Kahn - Mrs. Montenegro
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh

“- Mario: Are you spendin' money on this stuff? Look at this!
- Luigi: Yeah, but that's got the article about the missing Brooklyn girls in it.
- Mario: Yeah? It's also got one on the scientist who turns brains into cheese.”

Bob Hoskins - Mario Mario
John Leguizamo - Luigi Mario

“Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood.”

Ice Cube - Doughboy

“- Withnail: I've some extremely distressing news.
- ... & I: I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear anything. Oh God, it's a nightmare, I tell you, it's a nightmare.
- Withnail: We've just run out of wine. What are we gonna do about it?
- ... & I: I don't know, I don't know. Oh God, I don't feel good. My thumbs have gone weird! I'm in the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard R. Grant - Withnail
Paul McGann - ... & I

“Corporations and broadcasters make you dead meat / You been taught in this country there's speech that is free / But free don't get you no spots on TV / If you want to have senators not on the take / Then give them free air time / They won't have to fake / Telecommunications is the name of the beast / that, that, that, that, that's eating up the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“And now, here are the headlines. Here they come right now. Pope actually found to be Jewish. Liberace is Anastasia and Ethel Merman jams Russian radar. The East Germans, today, claimed the Berlin Wall was a fraternity prank. Also the Pope decided today to release Vatican-related bath products. An incredible thing, yes, it's the new Pope On A...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“Good news is good news. No news is miscommunication.”
Tom Cavanagh - Dr. Harry Wells

“People don't really want the truth, they just want good news.”
J.K. Simmons - Phil Drebbles

“My dad always told Sasha and me that it was our duty as citizens of the world to keep up with the news. When I was little and I was in his car, there were always those stories on the radio. Something happens 1,000 miles away or down the block. Some kind of horror I couldn't even wrap my head around. But he didn't change the channel. He didn't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chad L. Coleman - Tyreese Williams

“Now, I know how life is in these parts, working a trade sunup to sundown. No time for reading newspapers. Am I correct? Let me do that work for you. And maybe, just for tonight, we can escape our troubles, and hear of the great changes that are happening out there.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Kidd

“People's minds are overloaded with information.”
Allen Leech

“- New York Times Reporter: If the Times had your report, we would print it, tomorrow.
- Daniel Jones: No. If it's gonna come out, it's gonna come out the right way.”
Matthew Rhys - New York Times Reporter
Adam Driver - Daniel Jones

“The next time you want information, don't scratch for it like a dog, ask for it like a man!”

Martin Milner - Steve Dallas

“- Railway Official: There's still fifty miles of track to be laid between here and Allabahad.
- Phileas Fogg: But the London newspapers announced the opening of this railway throughout.
- Railway Official: That must have been The Daily Telegraph. Never would have read that in The Times.”
Ronald Colman - Great Indian Peninsular Railway Official
David Niven - Phileas Fogg

“News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel and it pulls hard to the left.”
John Lithgow - Roger Ailes

“I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.”
Justin Theroux

“I’m a newspaperwoman and I have an obligation to report the facts.”
Phyllis Coates - Lois Lane

“People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.”
Michael Jackson

- Neo: How long to recharge the "Neb"?
- Trinity: 24, maybe 30, hours.
- Neo: Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good.

“- Ronnie Crawford: Dad! Dad! I've got great news!
- Bernard Crawford: If you two are in love, I don't wanna know about it.”

Lonny Price - Ronnie Crawford
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog

“- Kate Macer: I was about to have sex with my hitman.
- Alejandro: He wasn't going to kill you... he just wanted to know what you know.”

Emily Blunt - Kate Macer
Benicio del Toro - Alejandro

“- Gloria: You know what could've prevented all this, don't you?
- Charles 'Chuck' Lane: No, what?
- Gloria: Pictures. How could you make up characters if everyone you wrote about had to be photographed?”

Linda Smith - Gloria
Peter Sarsgaard - Charles 'Chuck' Lane

“Do you know what my husband said about the news? He called it the first rough draft of history.”
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“How would you feel if you'd been dead a day and a half and someone brought your more bad news?”
Jonathan Banks - Michelette