There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I was really fortunate. For a professional speaker, it is all about press, publicity and PR, so to get that much free publicity. . . it made life a lot easier.
I think that there is philanthropy and there is publicity. If you can marry the two to do something good, then I think it's great. Some of the other guys go around and slag people as a profession. That's not so interesting to me, because it's easy to take down, it's harder to build.
All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).
I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.
A boy has to peddle his book.
I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. I look at it as, I happen to have the means, I have the energy and I have the passion to do what I want to do.
Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?
People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.
I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.
I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.
I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.
I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.
I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.