Quotes About Publicity

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

It's starting to look like Donald Trump may be a serious presidential candidate. If you're in my line of work, Trump running for president for real is the greatest thing that has ever happened.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.

While it may be difficult to get on the front cover of a major magazine, you can create marketing strategies and opportunities by being featured in a popular niche blog.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

I went through a phase where all I was doing was commercials, and not that it was a bad thing, but I was referred to as 'the Allstate guy' as I was walking the streets. Someone comes up to you on the street, you would like them to know your name.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life.