Quotes About Publicity

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

All these drama created to sell medicines and vaccines.

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

Russell never got as much recognition as he deserved. Race was one reason. During the early sixties no black artist got adequate publicity.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Nirav Modi was the talk of the town, then the issue of Sridevi came in. This was brought to change the issue. When a person like Sridevi dies, you wrap her in tri-colour and you say you did that because she was a Padma Shri. It was all fault of the Maharashtra government.

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.