Freema Agyeman Quotes

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

That's garbage. Why can't they catch me in a sex scandal. I could use some good publicity.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

I never talk to tabloids.

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

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

Personal questions, or accusations about delivering flops or not doing good films end up being accusatory sessions where I have to defend myself. That's why I prefer not to do interviews.

The pressures on younger players now are greater. You've just got to be on your toes all the time with social media and stuff. Now you just go to fill your car up, and there will be somebody wanting to film you trying to do something silly like that.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.