Quotes About Publicity

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Tom Brady's balls" Nothing more than a publicity stunt to keep the NFL Network from losing San Francisco's market share.

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing

don't remember when Berkshire started growing to a point at which he was in a different league," said Emilie. "I think my parents were really private. They didn't want publicity. My dad was a creature of habit so everything was exactly the same. We never had a feeling we were growing up in some rich household.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

When anybody honks at me in traffic, I blush, wave, and shout, Thanks for being a fan." Being a celebrity is a 24/7 thing.

Press Releases are spam

You're better off focusing on getting your story into a trade publication or picked up by a niche blogger. With these outlets, the barrier is much lower. You can send an e-mail and get a response (and maybe even a post) the same day. There's no editorial board or PR person involved. There's no pipeline your message has to go through.

We've been written up in big mainstream publications like Wired and Time, but we've found that we actually get more hits when we're profiled on sites like Daring Fireball, a site for Mac nerds, or Lifehacker, a productivity site. Links from these places result in notable spikes in our traffic and sales. Articles in big-time publications are nice, but they don't result in the same level of direct, instant activity.

poco es lo que se hace público, poco lo que interesa, poco lo que quiere conocer la gente, que está fijada en lo suyo, cada uno en lo propio y lo de los demás qué importa.

This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met, and contended, and killed one another without malice.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by oneself? You're so shy, and yet you're so public. I always feel as if I were in the convent again--or on the stage before a dreadfully polite audience that never applauds.

A celebrity these days is somebody you've never heard of

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Chapter 8 "America's No. 1 Vomic" (Winchell)

As I understand the term, it is of the very essence of democracy that the individual citizen shall be invested with the inalienable and sovereign right to make an ass of himself; and furthermore, that he shall be invested with the sovereign right of publicity to tell all the world that he is doing so.

Libraries, railway stations and three Scottish castles were burned. A bomb exploded in Westminster Abbey, damaging a stained-glass window.[8] There were over 200 acts of damage against property in the space of four years. The suffrage campaign of assault on art was driven by moral anger and self-righteousness. It was part cultural terrorism, part publicity campaign and part blackmail.

The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term.