Quotes for All
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians … Read more
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
I did ‘The Karate Kid,’ then I just went back to college. I didn’t know how much money it made and I didn’t have a publicist. I didn’t have any sense of the business part of it. Elisabeth Shue
After three major movies, I was like, ‘Oh, I guess you’re supposed to get a publicist?’ Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy. Elisabeth Shue
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer. Francesca Annis
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. Douglas Adams
I don’t have a publicist, I don’t go to events, I don’t do magazines, and it’s just not my life. Diora Baird
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways – you’re their friend, you’re their mother, you’re their confidante. Debi Mazar
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I … Read more
I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent … Read more