Jorge Masvidal Quotes

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

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.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I'm doing TV interviews, I'm doing many, many print interviews.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.

There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

I don't stage my own publicity.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.

I've never played the PR game.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.