Quotes About Publicity

I suppose everyone gets written about sooner or later.

I cannot see the word troubled prefixing the name of some poor starlet who has been dragged through the mire of tabloid spite without vomiting directly onto the newspaper. Troubled by whom? Troubled by you, you fuckwits.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

It's the new face of narco gang war, isn't it? They're becoming media savvy. They used to hide their crimes, now they publicize them. I wonder if they haven't taken a page from Al Qaeda. What good is an atrocity if no one knows you did it? And maybe that's the lede on my story. "The crimes that used to lurk in shadows now seek the sunlight," or is that a little too "pulp"? Óscar will decide.

good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.