Quotes About Publicity

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.

It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.

A wise prince, when he has the opportunity, ought with craft to foster some animosity against himself, so that, having crushed it, his renown may rise higher.

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Everybody asks me questions about the inside of James Franco's mouth.

You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.

I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

Actually, we've never invested much attention in press.

I left influencing the media to other members of my family, like my Mum.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Google is not my friend. I've been way too open in my career. Google has killed any shot I have on the dating apps.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a mystery.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.