Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

When you're an independent artist, you need as much play or promotion as you can get.

I'm the most successful filmmaker in the country; what do I need PR for?

For years people have approached me with great products but have had no way of marketing them.

I be wearing my own merch outside, trying to get more famous.

All stars are businessmen. Once you decide to become a star, you are talking about money, fame, and being successful.

I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB.

That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.