Quotes About Publicity

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

some anonymous guy in a bar at a conference, then the newspapers start asking questions. Pretty soon I'll bet it's going to be on Twitter and then there'll be an Internet meme. It doesn't have to exist in reality as long as people give it a kind of reality by talking and writing and arguing about it.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

Was this what fame was like? Like a permanent bittersweet cocktail of worship and assault? It was no wonder so many famous people went off the rails when the rails veered in every direction. It was like being slapped and kissed at the same time.

By February 2016, when Trump was already steaming toward the nomination, I began to realize the extent to which he'd conned all of us. He first used the media's financial desperation to secure free coverage, but when the attention became not just negative but condemnatory, he used that, too. He

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump A

Once you're famous you can't go back.

There are few things more nerve-racking than trying to act normal with a camera in your face and someone shouting at you to "act normal.

What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.

At first glance, it might seem as though the death of the press release was slightly exaggerated. After all, press releases are still in circulation.

The tsunami of social media that has conquered global communications within a few years has swept away privacy, once predominant, and has laid the groundwork for a new world where everything is public - or is rapidly becoming so - and where everything is transparent - or is about to be.

Today, the PR business is 100 percent measurable. You can demonstrate with utmost accuracy who read what, when they read it, what gender they are, what education they have, what country they are from - we have all kinds of data to the smallest detail. That, too, is related to the transparency of our business.

This modern craze for biographical information leaves me cold for many reasons. For one thing, it's always inaccurate; for another, it's so bound up with publicity and other varieties of idiocy that it gags a person of any sensibility. For another, to be heralded is to become a candidate for the newest list of "the busted geniuses of yester-year" of whom I hope never to be one.

What I mean is how public people almost eagerly dehumanize themselves. They allow the markings of region, family, class, individual character, and, generally, personhood that they once possessed to be leached away. At the same time, they construct a new public self that often does terrible damage to what remains of the genuine person.

All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life while starting a new one, and doing so with millions of people watching.

One accident that kills, say, 10 people gets far more attention than 10 accidents that kill 1 each. The 876 people each year who die on US tracks usually have little publicity, but imagine if they all occurred at once. . . .

gets as much attention as Bond