David Cassidy Quotes

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

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

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

You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don't have paparazzi following them.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

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

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.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

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

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

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

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

Any press is good press.

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.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.