Lynn Coady Quotes

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

I understand the art of PR, social media, gossip, and what that does for businesses, so I don't really trip off of it.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

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

I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.

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.

Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

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.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

I never talk to tabloids.

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

I don't stage my own publicity.

The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

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