Robin Van Persie Quotes

Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

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

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.