Quotes About Publicity

All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it's everywhere, even if it's some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn't a thing to do with us.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

She wasn't invisible anymore. She'd stepped dead-bang into the spotlight, and she'd painted a big bull's-eye on her head.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it… but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

I have always shouted from the rooftops about my businesses but I had never ever spoken about my personal life.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.