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Quotes About Publicity

An international celebrity, he said, was better off "leaving politics to the chaps who are paid to do the job, dear.
~ Lesley-Ann Jones
Dick Cheney ... and that's all I gotta say. Isn't it great that we've reached that point? You don't even have to say "Dick Cheney, the Vice President who shot his friend in the face while hunting". "Dick Cheney", everybody goes "Waha!" and we move on.
~ Lewis Black
Ever since my childhood, I had an urge to always stay in the limelight.
~ Jaideep Ahlawat
Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
~ Jimmy Breslin
I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.
~ Adele
I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.
~ Alain Wertheimer
What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.
~ Diane Keaton
I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with anyone on Twitter, leaving a few sparse comments and 'Likes' on Facebook (I'm not a huge user of the service, I'll be honest), and sending any number of photos to thousands of 'followers' on Instagram and Tumblr.
~ John Battelle
Trump knows how to play the media all on his own. He creates his own Twitter feed and uses it. He knows how to get the media's attention without the benefit of a state-controlled media. He does it all on his own. Trump understands how a free media works.
~ Fiona Hill
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
~ Mario Balotelli
The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people.
~ Paul Pierce
You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.
~ John Niven
There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which are still very, sort of, hidden. Even Nick Cave, who has a film about himself nowadays, is still someone who I would claim to be utterly enigmatic.
~ Tobias Forge
I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?
~ Willie Geist
I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
~ B. D. Wong
I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.
~ Ronda Rousey
Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'
~ Berenice Bejo
When you go public, the value equation of your company changes immediately. It is valued on anticipated earnings.
~ Kenneth Cole
In the end he went on 60 Minutes—a nothingburger, but great publicity. It was soon revealed that the federal police had followed Sean and the woman he was with—a Mexican soap opera star whom El Chapo had set his eye on. They unknowingly led the federales to El Chapo.
~ Jann S. Wenner
An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?
~ Jason Lutes
Don't delude yourself: You cannot succeed without media advertising.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
If at a given moment, the commodity was its own publicity (there was no other) today publicity has become its own commodity.
~ Jean Baudrillard
one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
~ Jean Cocteau
Celebrity, for me, equal hatred
~ Jean-Paul Sartre