Negative Attention Quotes

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

I think the only way to get attention is to act like a complete ignorant fool.

People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.

The problem is I think Howie is exactly right, is that Donald Trump would rather be at the center of a media controversy in a negative way than allow the limelight to move to Hillary Clinton and let her actually take heat in the public - in a public arena. And it just sucks up all of the oxygen.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

You're one kick away from being Public Enemy No. 1. You're always one kick away from trending on Twitter as the No. 1 loser in America.

For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

People like scandals.

When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.

I've been the target of haters for so long, for so many years. Ever since I was a kid and I first started the show.

People may trash me, but at least they're talking about me.