Quotes About Publicity

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Generally, I don't like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I've always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the subjects of the film. I don't want them to be thinking about the film or funding or what the public reaction is going to be.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't ride the subway... I still ride the subway, but there's always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

I don't feel famous.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

Later, researchers showed that the virus in the news could survive for 28 days on surfaces such as bank notes. This discovery was given huge publicity and used as evidence that we shouldn't use cash but should rely on credit cards and credit card machines (which, of course, do not ever get contaminated).

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

I think the best person in her [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.