Publicity Quotations

Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

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

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

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

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.

My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

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

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

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

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

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.

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.

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

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.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

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.

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.

There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

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

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.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

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

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.

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

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

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

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.

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.

Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

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

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

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.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

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 is such a thing as bad publicity.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.

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.

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

I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

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

My activities are not for publicity or propaganda or even to confer joy on others! They are for conferring joy primarily on Me!

My sense is that the FDA's response to all this publicity is to slow down and be even more careful. And that's absolutely the wrong thing to do.

One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.

So many times in our area of the state, our kids do not get the publicity all over the state, which would enable him to get the votes that he needed to do this. It's exciting to see one of our guys getting his due.

Oh, yeah. I get that. People think I did it for the publicity. As much publicity as I'm getting, I'm making no money off of it. I hope people don't think I'm going to be the kind of guy that would do that. My reputation would be clobbered.

Only a fool would subject themselves to questioning by seven investigators as some sort of publicity stunt.

PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can. They're comparing chickens to black people?

People who want to get publicity just latch on to Elvis because the ride will take you everywhere. I don't want to say that's what this guy is doing. ... You have to judge whether this guy is legitimate.

Obviously the time has now come -- and it has long since come -- where the glare of publicity is on this issue,

I have been saying three or four teams the whole time. The last couple of days, we've gotten so much publicity that it's almost been negative.

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.

She (Blythe Brown) dislikes the public attention, and I (see) no reason why she should be put through the stress that the glare of publicity would cause.

She called just wanting to tell me about the facility and if she could get any kind of publicity on the Tennis Channel. She was telling me how neat this new facility was. She sent me some pictures and we came out and looked at it. We were like 'holy cow,' I can't believe this is a municipal tennis facility.

Sen. Santorum is simply trying to gain publicity for his re-election campaign.

I was in New York on Sept. 11 doing the publicity for Big Trouble. What happened was beyond horrible, and everybody knows that. But we have to go on.

From what we've seen, many people love this product and swear by it. Putting Safe Sea out there to South Florida residents creates more publicity for the lotion. It'll assist our company as well, since we're relatively new.

(Ginn) is as good as any player out in space as I have ever seen. We do not feel like Holmes gets near the publicity he deserves. So both of those guys are as good as anybody we will play this year at (wide receiver).

Given the publicity of this case, you're not going to run into anybody here who hasn't heard about it, ... Everybody at Parris Island knows about it.

For too long, the publicity of the sport has come in a two-week window (during the College World Series). And now, we're trying to put it in the center stage year round.

For us the organizers of the vigil are phony-baloney, betraying the sacrifices that those, men and women make in Iraq, by demanding that we pull our troops out now and leave Iraq to go to hell. This is a publicity stunt.

Because of the immense publicity that's mushroomed around this issue in the past six months, more people are getting emotional about the topic. And it's generally not on my side.

to counter some of the bad publicity he'd seen about the company.

He's a big name, not only for publicity but for recruiting. And he's a hell of a coach. He has a good football mind. Knowing that he's a former pro athlete, the kids will be very attentive and will work hard for him.

We have to believe there's someone out there who knows what happened and can provide the information we need on this tragic case. It's quite possible that the boat we're looking for may have been moved to another state and, hopefully, additional publicity will encourage someone to step forward if they have seen any boat matching the description of what we are looking for.

I am happy with the way it turned out. We did a lot of publicity for the film and of course Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta made this film technically very sound. It was also critically acclaimed and it was liked by a certain audience. I did hear a lot about him, about his eccentric ways while shooting. But I had a fabulous time working with him. He is so professional at his work; he is a treat to work with.

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

He's getting a lot of press for something that was a publicity stunt.

He has risk and he has edge, which some companies look for. Those that will look at him will be companies looking for publicity value, because he generates that.

I was actually in the midst of breakfast, and Angela Tarantino, who does publicity at HBO, called me -- very excited, shrieking into the phone. It was very nice. ... 'Sex and the City' won last year, which was so exciting, but Sarah and I weren't out there because we are doing plays in New York. So you can be sure we will be there this year with bells on this time around.

I was amazed and amused. It's good publicity for the book.

Linebackers can have an impact on teams and you can name four or five in the league that are clearly players that opposing teams have to watch out for. Defensive linemen normally get a little bit more publicity but I think if you have a chance to draft a good, solid, core-type guy, you better take him.

Maria losing in the first round is a classic example why no tournament should center all of publicity around one player.

Playing at Gulf Coast kept my recruiting buzz alive in the state, ... By staying in Mississippi, I got publicity and immediate playing time at Gulf Coast and Southern Miss.

Our research suggests that consumers, for all the publicity concerning carbohydrates and health, are still confused about weight management and how to include carbohydrates in a healthful diet. Fads and quick fixes, though attractive, are not effective tools for getting to a healthful diet.

I think this is a publicity stunt, and at the end of the day she's a fringe candidate. This is her 15 minutes of fame.

I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters. It would be better to wait and try to do them simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc.

It is a travesty to have a PE program branded by McDonald's. It further commercializes schools and gets the company even more publicity with children.