Quotes About Publicity

I was almost as famous at Indiana for my television shows as I was my coaching. That's kind of embarrassing when you think about it.

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly - that's just life on camera.

People are brutal. They forget that people on telly are actually real people.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

Mills, who had become a nightly fixture on CNN, Fox

If Jonny Rokeby turned up here, yes, the press would be fighting tooth and nail to get a shot of him. For fuck's sake. You're not that famous. Get the fuck over yourself.

Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

But I rather like being infamous. If you're a nobody, you're just a nobody. If you're famous, they erect a statue of you and pigeons crap on your head. But if you're infamous, you're somebody without having to put up with pigeon crap. - Phinizy Mosely

Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.

A man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.

While this resulted largely from his aversion to publicity, it also stemmed from his residing in Cleveland.

In his essay for Wired, Thompson writes that "we're learning to live in front of a crowd." That's precisely the problem. The strain of living in front of a crowd, 24/7, 365 days a year, is what causes real celebrities to fall apart. Remember Britney Spears shaving her head and attacking that car with an umbrella? Spears was 25 years old at the time. She wasn't a teenager. She was (or was supposed to be) a mature adult. She was the mother of two young children.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.