Quotes About Publicity

Upon discovering what Fred had done, his mother grabbed him and stripped his clothes off. She stuck his butt out the window and yelled at the top of her voice, "Everyone in the neighborhood come quickly and see Freddie's bare ass!" That would be the first of many times during Fred Levin's life that he would bare his backside for the world to see.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

If today I have been able to sell myself, it's because I agreed to shed my clothes and my inhibitions. And the more clothes I take off, the greater the number of people who come to see my films.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

I don't get insecure and rush to sign movies just to be in the public view and news. That is not the way I am.

People are following me because they want to see pictures of me. So why is Instagram editing them?

Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.

I try to keep my integrity. I don't want to be in 'Hello!' or on 'Celebrity Big Brother.'

I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.

I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.

Previously, someone would interview me, and if they liked me, it'd be a great story. If they hated me, it'd be a horrible story. I had no way to say anything. Social media changed things for people who didn't have a voice.

I can't say if I enjoy the attention or not. It's really exhausting. But every speech and every interview is extremely important to me because it could be my last one.

An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'