10 Movie Quotes about Publicity (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about publicity, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 This company can't afford any more bad publicity.

James Coburn as Henry J. Waternoose in Monsters, Inc.

2 All my years of publicity, all the fashion shows and radiothons for nothing!

Paul Newman as Reggie "Reg" Dunlop in Slap Shot (1977)

3 I'm doing great! You're everywhere, baby! Radio, TV, the papers! You can't buy this kind of publicity!

Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen in Cars

4 I'm going to blow my brains out, right on this programme, a week from today. -Ten seconds to commercial. -So tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public-relations people a week to promote the show.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

5 She's a goddamn liar! Some nutcase seeking money or publicity. God only knows why. Like that Russian babe, Anesthesia.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)

6 Yes, there is something wrong: People who want publicity, and don't mind how they get it, what risks they make other people run, what agony and sorrow they bring to other people.

Keefe as Jerry Manning in The Leopard Man (1943)

7 I'm gonna spread this whole reeking business in every newspaper, on every network, group and affiliate in this country. I'm gonna make a lot of noise about this. -Great. We need all the press we can get.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

8 Listen. There is no such thing as bad publicity, sweetheart.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

9 So, who gets the publicity? Figure that out. -Dempsey. -That's right. But why? -'Cause he was Champ. -No! Because he had a manager. I had nothin', man.

Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky (1976)

10 Did you see the news this morning? Did you see the Times? We've got press coverage on this you couldn't buy for a million dollars.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)