Edward Snowden Quotes

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

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

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

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

If you wish in this world to advance/Your merits you're bound to enhance;/You must stir it and stump it, /And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.

I don't do press for the sake of press. I tend to only be in the press when I'm introducing something or collaborating on something or whatever it may be, as opposed to inviting someone into my home to photograph my closet for no particular reason.

I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?

I think sometimes the fighters aren't very clear on things, and even myself, I'm a fighter, a lot of fighters make mistakes about working their image and how they market themselves.

It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too.

A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.