Quotes About Notoriety

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

Everyone likes me," said Caul Shivers, the most feared man in the North.

You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.

Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

She wasn't invisible anymore. She'd stepped dead-bang into the spotlight, and she'd painted a big bull's-eye on her head.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

One of Russia's tsars, around 1580, was known as Ivan the Terrible, and rightly so. Beside him Nero was mild.

His fame was noised throughout all the country.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I'm in the public eye.

As an artist, you're used to being in the public eye.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

Being considered a public figure honestly makes me laugh.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.