Quotes About Publicity

I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

I am really surprised that what I am wearing on 'Countdown' has got into the papers.

At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.

If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

John would drink, too, but he would stop. After a while, John would say, 'I've had enough, I don't want to be in the papers.'

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.

When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.