Quotes About Publicity

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

It's sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.

There is a lot of things to be outraged about these days, and I think that getting outraged about an actor on a television show who may be wearing a costume that makes him larger than he is, might be low on the list.

But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.

When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.

I'm very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

I think a lot of chefs are afraid of media outlets, and especially web outlets, because they're afraid there's some 'Borat' situation going on.

When you are putting yourself out there - be it a web series, movie or a reality show - you have to prepare for the good and the bad.