Quotes About Notoriety

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

The more publicity the better.

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

They're Duncan's words and Duncan was speaking as a mentat. 'In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

American Psycho] is "throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.

That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Neuroscientists tell us why.[13] Dopamine—the neurotransmitter of pleasure behind nearly all addictive behaviors—is excreted in response to thoughts about buying new things, winning money, acquiring more power or notoriety, or, for that matter, having new sex partners.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

I'm not very interested in fame or notoriety at all - in fact, I'd be pretty bummed out if I woke up one day and I was, like, super, super famous. But the flipside of that is that I'm really passionate about my music, I'm really proud of it and I want it to be heard by as many people as possible, and I'm willing to embrace whatever comes with that.