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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.