Quotes About Publicity

What was the point of becoming famous anyway? The Press dumped on you when you were alive, and pigeons when you were dead.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

To shoot up a district of women, children, prams and goldfish otherwise, to run them through with swords much as one might like to, would not look good, would look grave, sexist, unbalanced, not only in the glare of the critical side of the home media, but also in the eyes of the international media

To get a headline, to get on the evening news, you have to attack a Jew. Otherwise you're ignored. And it's a shame. And we all play into it.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do, so I just have to find a way of being comfortable with it.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.

The higher your profile, the more people want you.

Celebrity haircuts are one of the great perks of even a little media profile.

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

TV ads let people know you're still around. Not only do they sell albums, they give you a high profile. They let people know you're out there and working.

Awards do get you 'that profile,' but then you have to do the rest of the work - it's not just a case of 'now you don't have to do anything.'