Coco Martin Quotes

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.

Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.

I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

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

I get a lot of the time, 'We don't know how to market you,' or, 'You're too big.' Or, 'We have one of you already,'. But you don't have one of me already; you don't have a seven-foot, lovable guy. You don't have that.

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 knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: 'Hey, if I like it, everyone's gonna like it.' Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

As an actor, you can't just be in the film. You're also in charge of selling it, and so you have to sell yourself, and you have to be very political and make sure to not say the wrong things. It's exhausting.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I have expertise of performing, not promoting.

If you can't stop singing as you walk through the halls of your house, or you love performing in your local talent show, YouTube is such a good platform to share that side of you. It's a place for people who have passions, and the audience is people who appreciate those passions.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

To be in the wonderful world of entertainment, you have to be optimistic.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

I am not good with PR or in projecting a certain image of myself, and I don't give clarifications about rumours; that's it.