Tim Finchem Quotes

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.

Everything I do lands in the newspapers.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

… a public personage.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they're stopping for me.

Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.

Fame can amplify the message of art in a remarkable, meaningful way.

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

I can generate attention quickly.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.