Quotes About Publicity

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

Darling, I have enemies I've never met. that's fame!

It was only a few years ago that Madame Tussaud's announced that the company had found it necessary to use glue to 'fix' one of its most popular wax figures. 'Every time we passed by,' a curator explained, 'Bill Clinton's zipper was undone.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Donald Trump announced that he is not running for president. He would rather spend his time making Gary Busey sell Snapple on the street.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it's sunshine.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?"