Quotes About Publicity

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

The Prime Minister gave President Obama one of my artworks and suddenly my name was all over the news.

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

With a face like mine, I do better in print.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.

I used to be so excited when I saw my name in print.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

I'm doing TV interviews, I'm doing many, many print interviews.

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think they were going to print it.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that.

Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.