Brendan Behan Quotes

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

If you're famous and supposedly wise, it's always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

I wait for death and journalists.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.