Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That’s why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who’s either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.
There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.
I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don’t really know who you are yet.
What’s nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That’s the fun part.
In my days, players were only thinking about publicity during holiday and on rest days.
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it’s really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
I can’t be happy if I want to because the media won’t let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.
I never, ever used my son for publicity. He’ll have his say one day if he wants it. He’ll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
My dad doesn’t give me any advice about how to handle publicity.
With publicity comes humiliation.
The happy marriages never get any publicity. It’s just the bad ones that you read about.
I’m interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there’s still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
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.
I know that gossip comes with a territory. It’s a professional hazard, and while initially, I’d get a little riled, I’ve now learnt to handle it well. And honestly speaking, it’s all very good publicity, isn’t it?
The publicity of the Nobel Prize has made clear that the research work connected with the Quantum Hall Effect was so successful because a tremendous large number of institutions and individuals supported this activity.
I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.
Whenever you have publicity, it’s always a good thing.
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.
You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don’t have paparazzi following them.
I’ve had enough publicity for 15 lives.
I guess guys who play on national TV get a lot of publicity.
The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease.
Whenever I travel anywhere, I’m constantly asked if I’m Swedish. It’s the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don’t go to a restaurant and let slip I’m leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.
You don’t do charity work for publicity. Well, I know I don’t. Everybody’s different.
I don’t maybe follow the normal star profile, and it’s not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.
There are two types of films – one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.
No money has ever been spent on ‘Peaky Blinders’ in terms of publicity, there’s no massive campaign – because it’s the BBC you just get the trailers. But what’s happened is people have found it for themselves and I think the loyalty is greater when people find than when they’re told to watch something.
I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.
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.
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.
I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day job, and at night I would study music.
I’m not someone who’s led my life trying to get publicity; I’d rather do my work and go home.
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
It’s just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
M-G-M knew how to build stars. We used to do constant publicity stills. You were the Easter bunny one time and a Christmas tree the next. When I went to Japan, they knew who I was. Now you have a great actress and a year later, they ask, ‘What happened to her?’
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
The things I do, I do for me, not for no publicity stunt or cameras or whatever.
In the early years of America’s skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
I started doing American films and TV before Priyanka, but of course I do small roles in big films, and I don’t have the publicity machine working around me.
I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you’re scared as hell when it stops.
Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
I’m not interested in publicity for myself.
I’ve always avoided publicity. I’ve never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don’t strive for it, because I don’t think it’s important whether I’m good copy or not. The two can go together, if that’s your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
What I’m looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people’s imagination is something I can promote – a project which writes its own publicity.
Please don’t think that I got married on TV for publicity. I already enjoyed a huge fan following, courtesy my character in Bidaai.’ Instead, the controversy has traumatized me.
I won’t name the real-life people who have inspired me, as I don’t want publicity.
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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.
I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits.
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.
I’ve never been a popular person, but it doesn’t matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I’m not a walking publicity stunt. I’m not an anarchist, or bitter. I’m not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.
It doesn’t worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.
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.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
I don’t like publicity, being in the limelight.
I don’t stage my own publicity.
