Amy Cuddy Quotes

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

I am a big believer in PR.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.

In my heart, I was drawn to PR.

Wish I had a PR team. That sounds very fancy.

The spokesman at Newcastle, unfortunately, was mainly me. I had to manage the football club.

I don't do media training. I don't do that.

Talking to the press is not always good.

Sean Spicer has somehow been doing PR since 1999, which is 18 years. Somehow, after 18 years, his go-to move was denying the Holocaust.

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.

I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things in this world that you had to do, and that was die and pay taxes. Now I know that you've got to talk to media. And I hate it.

Just about any growth company is going to need smart salespeople, account and project managers, business development, marketing, operations, customer service, content creation, communications, analytics, and social media.

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.