Best Publicists Quotes

#1. We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#2. I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

Ellen DeGeneres

#3. The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

Tony Danza

#4. It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

Luke Evans

#5. The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

Adam Carolla

#6. We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

Roger Brooke Taney

#7. The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

Lynn Coady

#8. You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

Archie Panjabi

#9. If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

Robert Pattinson

#10. I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

M. J. Hyland

#11. When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Aaron Sorkin

#12. You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

Ira Sachs

#13. Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

Susan Faludi

#14. I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.

Ava DuVernay

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

Tom Hardy

#16. In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.

Cassandra Giovanni

#18. I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.

Debi Mazar

#19. Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Marlene Dietrich

#20. Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.

James A. Owen

#21. I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.

Jess Walter

#22. I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

Nicola Formichetti

#23. In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

Alejandro Amenabar

#24. I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

Debi Mazar

#25. Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one's greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design toilets. Writers become critics or publicists. Archaeologists, like myself, can become gravediggers.

Salman Rushdie

#26. The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

M.J. Rose

#27. Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Gina Bellman

#28. With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

Jess Walter

#29. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Janet Malcolm

#30. You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

Martin Short

#31. Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.

Stephen Rodrick

#32. The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.

Susan Cain