Publicity Quotes

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

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

We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

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.

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.