Quotes About Publicity

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

I've had a couple of experiences. It can get scary. Especially when you're on TV and you're in someone's home every week and they feel like they know you. If you don't know them back, they don't understand. They've become detached. But most of the time, fans are great.

What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There's the making of it and then there's the putting out of it - and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.

You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.

When you get famous, you become a target for things, like lawsuits. People will take advantage of your fame.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

If you sign a big contract, everybody knows. They're going to print it in the paper. It's on ESPN. You can go online and check player salaries and all that. You're a target.

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste.

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they're always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

The flashy, publicity-seeking type of adventurer can grab the headlines and be a hero in the eyes of the public, but he simply can't deliver the goods in high command. On the other hand, the slow, methodical, ritualistic person is absolutely valueless in a key position.

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I mean I was famous for nothing.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

If people were to find out that Comic Relief is a front for organ harvesting, drug dealing and global child prostitution, there'd be a hell of a stink. The papers would be all over us. And Cliff must never get found out.