Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
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I'm not that great with press sometimes.
I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.
Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.
I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.
I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.