Top 44 Publicist Quotes

I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don’t want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they’ve seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something.

I don’t read my own press, so I don’t know what’s being reported on a daily basis – I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

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 can never say no – I hate saying no to anything – so whenever my agent rings up and says, ‘I’ve got a new job for you’ or my publicist says, ‘you’ve got to be here on this day,’ I’m always like, ‘yay, ok, great!’

I am honored to be one of this year’s Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival’s 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

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

I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.

But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

I’ve been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could’ve been more prepared for me? A publicist who’s been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, ‘Oh, that cut is not as flattering as I thought,’ or ‘I should smile bigger,’ or ‘That positioning is odd.’ I learn from it.

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.

I have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn’t have the opportunities that I’ve had.

I just wanna go on the record to say I talk about U2 so much, I should be their publicist. I should be added to the PR team. U2 is my favorite band of all time. I love them so much.

When my publicist told me I was going to be in ‘People”s Ones to Watch as Maybelline’s honoree, at first I was in shock. Then I thought, ‘Wow. This is really happening.’ I just feel so happy and honored that they would choose a boy in beauty.

They just expected it to you know… Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

I don’t have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

I used to be an actor, I used to be a journalist and I used to be a publicist. I know how all these people think.

I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can’t help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, ‘Don’t do that smile on the red carpet.’ I’m, like, ‘That’s my smile.’

For me, I don’t have a publicist. I don’t want to talk about my personal life. I don’t want to talk about my process. I don’t want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It’s nice to be an entertainer, but I’m a reluctant celebrity.

Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it’s not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

I don’t have a publicist, I don’t go to events, I don’t do magazines, and it’s just not my life.

You go through publicists because it’s easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, ‘No’.

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media – Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of them – all of the new available techniques to get to people. I think that you are your best publicist and record company and everything right now when starting out.

My biggest problem in my life is I’m cheap and I didn’t hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

At the premiere for ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I’m wondering, ‘What do I do?’ So I had to think, ‘OK, calm down, one person at a time.’ Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

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.

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.

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

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.

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don’t fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

My publicist actually told me about the book. She’s half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, ‘You’ve got to do this book. It’s called ‘Crazy Rich Asians.”

I’ve never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what’s going on out there.

I didn’t go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways – you’re their friend, you’re their mother, you’re their confidante.

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.

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

There’s the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

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.

When I finally got a manager and a publicist and blah, blah, blah, sometimes they do things that you don’t authorize or maybe tell you information that’s incorrect, but you go around repeating it only to find out later that it’s not true, and it’s very embarrassing.

The camera fails to capture the ‘business’ in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a ‘visionary.’ I’ve hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I’ve been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn’t touch ‘visionary’ with a 10-foot pole.