Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.
I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You’re not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable.
The emerging notion of the Eighties was that publicity was a currency. The old view was that if you had a currency - your talent or your product - publicity might draw attention to it. The new view was that publicity in itself, highlighting you, bestowed value.
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.
????Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.
Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
To me, any publicity is good publicity.
It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.