Top 48 Quotes About Self Publicity
#1. Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
Chris Lowe
#2. There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.
Michael Longley
#3. Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.
Dennis Rodman
#4. Things have changed from the old days when movie studios encouraged stars to partner up for publicity. There's been some pressure from Disney Channel for people to not have a personal relationship with their business partners.
Lucas Grabeel
#5. There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
Erin McKean
#6. Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Jeremy Bentham
#7. Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
J.B. Priestley
#8. Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
Ryan Holiday
#9. You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.
Whitney Houston
#10. News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
Bill Moyers
#11. Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
#12. Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Jon Krakauer
#13. It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.
Ernesto Cardenal
#14. There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.
Liam Hemsworth
#15. Late-blooming success can be complicated. As people age, they are more likely to judge their accomplishments on their own terms; however, late bloomers often use the benefits of broader acknowledgment and publicity to help them meet their personal and professional goals.
J.M. Orend
#17. 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.
Donna Rice
#18. He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks ...
Robert Galbraith
#19. 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.
Michael Hutchence
#20. You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.
Kate Millett
#21. People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
Rachel Johnson
#22. 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.
M.J. Rose
#23. Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
Cleo Moore
#24. 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.
Jeremy Thomas
#25. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
#26. I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.
Michio Kaku
#27. The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
Cecil B. DeMille
#28. 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.
Linda Evangelista
#29. I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
Al Capone
#30. The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
John Berger
#31. 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.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#32. 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.
Brendan I. Koerner
#34. As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director.
Mike Nichols
#35. I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.
Nicole Richie
#36. Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
Lamar Odom
#37. All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
Elizabeth Hawes
#38. Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
Richard Branson
#39. I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.
Paul Ince
#40. The public good must come before private interests.
Bryant McGill
#41. Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
Hedda Hopper
#42. 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.
Christopher Heyerdahl
#43. The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
Jackie Chan
#44. The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
Daniel Cudmore
#45. It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.
Keith David
#46. I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
Marilyn Monroe
#47. 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.
Jane Russell
#48. Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery ... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
Joseph Stilwell
