Quotes About Publicity

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

It's good to be in the news for whatever reason. I can't pretend that I am not enjoying the attention. Being popular is a good thing.