Quotes About Notoriety

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

I want to be as big as I can be. I want to be one of the biggest artists. I want to be remembered like, 'He is crazy. He is phenomenal.' I just want to be one of the biggest.

I don't want to be remembered as the guy who had a fight in the street.

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind you of so-and-so's ex-girlfriend?' It's always somebody's ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who's 'crazy.'

I want to be an icon.

I am not aware I am an icon.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

I can never be incognito... but I love it!

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

I came out of my mother's womb wanting to be a professional wrestler. But then notoriety and stardom happened, and I started getting cocky.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

but she wanted ALL Oxford to see her—see her NOW.

My reputation precedes me now.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.