Lisa Lopes Quotes

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

Negative press is always going to come out.

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've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

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

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

That's garbage. Why can't they catch me in a sex scandal. I could use some good publicity.

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite.

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

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

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.