Jean Cocteau Quotes

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

I think the world needs to see more of my face.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.

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

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

I hate publicity. The only publicity must be through my work. I can only talk about myself in relation to work. I know about work - but I don't know about me.

I don't get insecure and rush to sign movies just to be in the public view and news. That is not the way I am.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

I'm as self-promoting as the next guy.

When I go to parties people recognize me and that's another contact, another tool in my bag of tricks. I don't even have a publicist. I work it.

I'm confident in my abilities and confident to know what kind of player I am. I've also been educated on the business side of it, getting your value.

It doesn't matter what we post about ourselves on social networks or how many times we play live TV, even. It's all about those people, those fans who are telling other people about us.

You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they've really performed in their life, where they've been in a place where they were confident.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

I do not make an effort to promote myself as a brand. I just focus on making the right choices that feel right to me as an actor.

I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.

I just didn't want people to think, Here's this idiot Danish actor who made up this name to get attention. It's really quite common here, and I've had it all my life.

My work will speak for me. In fact, I never had a PR and I still don't.