Quotes About Publicity

People may trash me, but at least they're talking about me.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash' but you can't go on television and slander a person's career. It's illegal, even on reality shows.

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

You need the trash talk, and I'm an entertainer. I don't care if I look positive or not.

It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.

Being on 'Star Trek,' you have a funny relationship with fame.

For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.

The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.

It is a travesty that I have to stand trial because I spoke about fewer Moroccans.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.

Caitlyn Jenner is not brave nor a hero

A movie that gets closer to the life's reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.