Quotes About Publicity

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody.

I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.

I take it as a compliment when people want to click photos with us. But at times, it is pretty intrusive. People think that because we come on the big screen or on television, they have a right over us.

Ain't nobody ever seen a picture of me with no gun. I have my guns for safety.

I love having my picture taken. I love doing interviews.

The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Don't nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

A, if you wanna be an actor, you don't pose for paparazzi.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.