Publicity Quotes - Page 11

• I said in 2004,in fact a group was sent to me from the White House to try talk to me, because I was getting a lot of publicity.I said it in 2004, you're going to destabilize the Middle East, Iran is going to take over Iraq... and somebody else is going to help and that turned out to be ISIS. It's an exact.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.economist.com

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• It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

  Source: progressive.org

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• I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

  Tertullian

  Kings, Judging, Soldier

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• 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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Powerful, Looks, Fetch

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.221, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• All publicity works upon anxiety.

  John Berger

  Anxiety

  John Berger (2008). “Ways of Seeing”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!

  Jeanine Basinger

  Men, Dumb, Teeth

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• Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, Bathroom

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• I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Follow Me, Enjoy, Seems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

  Georgina Haig

  Film, More Money, Behinds

  Source: collider.com

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• Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ambition, Simple

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

  Ethan Canin

  Smart, Book, World

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Eye, Men, Needed

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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• 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.

  Ajay Devgan

  Two, Cost, Stuff

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

  C. Wright Mills

  World, Hierarchy, Wealth

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Barbara Steele

  Welcome, Kind, Holding On

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• 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.

  Wally Schirra

  Thinking, Politics, Public Relations

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

  Vanna White

  Remember, Term, Best Things

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

  David Baltimore

  Thinking, Names

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• 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.

  LaToya London

  Careers, Foxes, Fine

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• France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Circles, Ears, Demand

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• Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, He Man, Shows

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• All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Attention, Too Much, Interviews

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• I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies are a little more like your children.

  Campbell Scott

  Children, Mean, Littles

  "Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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• 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.

  Sally Hawkins

  People, Worry, Trails

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• Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Men, Age

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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