Jackie Cooper Quotes

My public image is none of my business.

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.

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

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

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.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

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

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

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

I get along fine with the press.

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

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

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

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

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.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

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.

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.