Jess Walter Quotes

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

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.

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

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'm really bad at self-promotion.

I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.

I like to promote my work. I do the promotion for my work because that is required. Apart from that I just don't know how to promote myself, to be honest, I think my work ideally should speak for itself.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly. David Blaine is an example of someone who's better at self-promoting than me. He is much better than I am.

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

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

I'm my best billboard.

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

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

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

I never really try to over-promote myself; I never have.

I have always tried to market myself.

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

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.