Donna Summer Quotes

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.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

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

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

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

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

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

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

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.