Yolandi Visser Quotes

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

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

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

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

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.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what it is; I tend not to do that.

I like to talk to media.

I understand the art of PR, social media, gossip, and what that does for businesses, so I don't really trip off of it.

Negative press is always going to come out.

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

I'm doing TV interviews, I'm doing many, many print interviews.

Journalists know other journalists - that's the only reason my engagement made it into the papers. I don't think real people are interested - just the media, just Twitter!

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

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

If I didn't have to do press, I would not.

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?