Richard Branson Quotes

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

There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.

I don't stage my own publicity.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

I'm not trying to build my own brand.

Any press is good press.

I pick and choose when I want to be in spotlight, which is only connected to my work and when I need to use the media.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.

If you are not in the media today, then you do not exist.

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as to garner fame, you'll see that I have turned down more interviews than I do. Or I turn down more things than I do.

You have to make bold choices to be noticed.