Jonathan Dee Quotes

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

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

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.

I don't do things to try and get publicity or anything like that.

For decades, Trump had no life independent from the media. He became a figure in the nation, and his a monitisable name - albeit quite a ludicrous one - because of his nonstop, relentless, shameless and often embarrassing courtship of the media.

I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

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

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

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

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

I'm my best billboard.

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.

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

I've never really sought out publicity.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

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