Quotes About Publicity

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.

The press, when they get a hold of something, they twist things.

A lot of times you do interviews and people twist your words. TMZ said something like I hate my male fans. I never said that, I said I wish I had more female fans, never said I hate male fans.

You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

Most footballers are quite tense, aren't they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They've got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.

When you're in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Just as many people that love me, hate me, too. I get really mean, mean, mean, mean comments on Twitter, and it just comes with the territory.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.

In our age of Twitter and smartphones, there is no controlled release of a movie preview. The enigma of movie stars is lost.

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

The default position now is that comedians do Twitter but I don't know why. Every bad story you see about a comedian has a connection to Twitter.