Quotes About Publicity

I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'

There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew how to work the press.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

OK, I don't love the red carpet... You arrive and all the photographers are shouting at you 'Smile!' I'm like: what, you want me to lift my leg and twirl? No.

I am fine if I am on a red carpet - I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that's fine.

I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, 'Oh, that cut is not as flattering as I thought,' or 'I should smile bigger,' or 'That positioning is odd.' I learn from it.

A female celebrity just has to chat and smile with a guy for him to become the new man in her life. Amazing.

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

Even if I sneeze, it would make headlines.

The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

I married Stephen Gately off to so many people because Stephen didn't want anyone to know he was gay at the start. He was dreading all of his life that this was going to ruin his career.

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?'

My life for so many years was a reality show.

It happens that way when a man strives to become the centre of attention, to bring sensational news somewhere.