Quotes About Publicity

Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.

When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.

I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.

I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

You can play for a smaller club, make a mistake, and no one will really highlight it, but when you play for a big club, whatever you do is going to be in the papers.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.