Norman Mailer Quotes

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

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

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

The media has had its fun with me.

In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

I don't want that to be the headline.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

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.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.