Quotes About Publicity

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that he had been forced to defend himself. By that very defense, by all the publicity, he had become controversial. He had been in print too often, it was somehow indiscreet of Dean to be attacked by McCarthy.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

I quit because I'm so tired of hearing bad news about cigarettes... Even if they discover good news, they don't publicize it - like the fact that smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up.