Jess Walter Quotes

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

I recognize that, to someone who doesn't know my history, maybe I seem like this guy who gets dressed up for the Internet.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

Whenever I Instagram or Vine something of myself, I like to go extreme and be crazy and silly.