Quotes About Publicity

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able to go and write and get behind the camera, that's my thing.

I was a publicist for other people's movies.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

People don't realize how much money you have to spend: styling, publicity, a manager, and your agent. That's a chunk of change.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.