Top 35 Ronan Farrow Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happy Father’s Day – or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law’s day.”

— Ronan Farrow

2. “Manners. Manners will get you through anything.”

— Ronan Farrow

3. “She drew a deep breath and said, “I hope the other girls get justice.”

— Ronan Farrow

4. “I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.”

— Ronan Farrow

5. “For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.”

— Ronan Farrow

6. “I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we’d have long conversations.”

— Ronan Farrow

7. “It’s incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.”

— Ronan Farrow

8. “Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That’s something I haven’t seen in a lot of powerful people.”

— Ronan Farrow

9. “You eat a lot of goat stomach when you’re in North Africa. You eat whatever’s put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.”

— Ronan Farrow

10. “You know that clip where Oprah Winfrey says of Gayle King, “She is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves.”

— Ronan Farrow

11. “Look at what’s happening! No one on these calls wants to own any of this, because it’s so obviously bad! It’s like a reverse Murder on the Orient Express. Everyone wants it dead, nobody wants to stab it!”

— Ronan Farrow

12. “I know that war is the failure of diplomacy and the failure of leaders to make alternative decisions.”

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13. “In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out. And stories – the big ones, the true ones – can be caught but never killed.”

— Ronan Farrow

14. “Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.”

— Ronan Farrow

15. “This is the most important story I’ve ever been on,” I texted her. “If I am late it’s because I have absolutely no choice.” After journalism, drama and being late were my great passions.”

— Ronan Farrow

16. “You know, the press is as much part of our democracy as Congress or the executive branch or the judicial branch. It has to keep things in check. And when the powerful control the press, or make the press useless, if the people can’t trust the press, the people lose. And the powerful can do what they want.”

— Ronan Farrow

17. “I looked up and down the block. The street was mostly empty. “Why do you think they were here for me?” He rolled his eyes. “Ronan. Is always you. You move in, address print everywhere, now I have no peace.”

— Ronan Farrow

18. “I told her Harvey Weinstein. Streep gasped. “But he supports such good causes,” she said. Weinstein had always behaved around her. She’d watched and sometimes joined in his Democratic fund-raising and philanthropy. She knew him to be a bully in the edit room. But that was it. “I believe her,” I told Jonathan later. “But you would either way, right?” he replied, considering it a thought exercise. “Yeah, I get it.” “Because she’s Meryl – ” “Because she’s Meryl Streep. I get it.”

— Ronan Farrow

19. “I’m interesting!” Jonathan said, when I told him. “I am a very interesting person! I went to an escape room!”

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20. “And she remembered her costar in Phantoms, Ben Affleck, seeing her visibly distraught immediately after the incident, and hearing where she’d just come from, and replying, “God damn it, I told him to stop doing this.” McGowan believed she’d been “blacklisted” after the incident. “I barely worked in movies ever again.”

— Ronan Farrow

21. “Saturday Night Live, which had eagerly riffed on similar stories about Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, and Donald Trump, didn’t mention Weinstein once.”

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22. “In the months after the New York Times and New Yorker stories broke, dozens of additional women accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or violence. The number grew to thirty, then sixty, then eighty.”

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23. “I called Maddow, who listened, and said no one tells her how to run her show. And so it came to pass that, all through the two years after the Weinstein story, I appeared on her show, and never again on any other NBC or MSNBC program.”

— Ronan Farrow

24. “One after another, the AMI employees used the same phrase to describe this practice of purchasing a story in order to bury it. It was an old term in the tabloid industry: “catch and kill.”

— Ronan Farrow

25. “Deborah Turness, who preceded Oppenheim, was described in lightly sexist profiles as having “rock-chick swagger,” which as far as I could tell just meant she sometimes chose to wear pants.”

— Ronan Farrow

26. “And NBC is letting you walk away with all this?” Remnick asked. “Who is this person at NBC? Oppenheim?” “Oppenheim,” I confirmed. “And he’s a screenwriter, you say?” “He wrote Jackie,” I replied. “That,” Remnick said gravely, “was a bad movie.”

— Ronan Farrow

27. “All the women before feel I am their fault,” she said. “And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault.”

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28. “Oppenheim approached us. “That’s Noah,” I whispered to my mother. “Tell him you liked Jackie.” “But I didn’t like Jackie,” she said. I shot her a withering look.”

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29. “I think that it doesn’t matter if you’re a well-known actress, it doesn’t matter if you’re twenty or if you’re forty, it doesn’t matter if you report or if you don’t, because we are not believed. We are more than not believed – we are berated and criticized and blamed.”

— Ronan Farrow

30. “When did you realize – ” Jonathan said theatrically when I walked in, late. “ – I know, I know, that I hate you,” I said. We’d done this before.”

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31. “Later, several people in that room would reach for the same adjectives to describe me: sad, desperate, trying to preempt pushback at every turn. It was, one said, like I was defending a dissertation.”

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32. “I’ll take care of you, baby,” he said. “I’ll keep you in finery and smoothies.” He hugged me around the middle like a kid hugging a stuffed animal. I laughed, put a hand on his. It had been a long year, for me and for us, but we hung in there. Later, when I decided some of that reporting would make its way into a book, I’d send him a draft, and put in a question, right on this page: “Marriage?” On the moon or even here on earth. He read the draft, and found the proposal here, and said, “Sure.”

— Ronan Farrow

33. “Did you eat?” he asked. “No,” I replied, still staring at the screen. “Let’s go somewhere healthy or disgusting.”

— Ronan Farrow

34. “Weinstein laughed. “You couldn’t save someone you love, and now you think you can save everyone.” He really said this. You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.”

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35. “But this idea found little purchase in an environment where victims were expected to be saints, and otherwise were disregarded as sinners. The women who spoke that summer were just people, acknowledging that all did a courageous thing, Argento included, does not excuse the choices made in the years that followed.”

— Ronan Farrow

36. “Bourdain said Weinstein’s predation was sickening, that “everyone” had known about it for too long. “I am not a religious man,” he wrote. “But I pray you have the strength to run this story.”

— Ronan Farrow

37. “Erin Fitzgerald had the kind of high-end consulting job that repeated explanations shed little light on.”

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38. “Jonathan already got a dedication and he’s quoted throughout these pages. How much more attention does he need?”

— Ronan Farrow