“Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.” DifferentMovingThreeSoundHoursMinutesSixPressureAskingPressesConstantStuckObjectivesJournalistChairsBitesAnnoyingCheesySound Bites Author:Annabella Sciorra
“I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.” LooksHas BeensBookNextRoomsKnownMinutesNeededPressesVersionsLook UpHotelButtonsHandyHotel Rooms Author:Margaret Atwood
“It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.” TryingFirstsCoursesPresidentMinutesTenToughPressesIraqVietnamConferencesAvoidedPresident BushPress Conferences Author:David Letterman
“When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.” WorldMadeSaidTodayActorsLostSpeakLanguageLinesRoomsTalkingMinutesOne DayConversationOfficeDecidedGreenPressesRanUnbelievableOnly TimeUpstairsForeign LanguageSpeak EnglishLost TimeGruntUnbelievable Things Author:Jack P. Shepherd
“I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'” ThinkingKnowsWellsKindJobsUsedHateNamesActingFansMinutesOkayI HateYeahPressesI RealizedAls Author:Ed O'Neill
“For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I was really fortunate. For a professional speaker, it is all about press, publicity and PR, so to get that much free publicity ... it made life a lot easier.” PeopleGivingTryingMadeHappensMinutesEasierFamePressesThings HappenFortunateSomething NewSpeakersPublicity Author:Judson Laipply