Robert Byrne Quotes

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.

It's a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

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.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

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.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.