Quotes About Notoriety

Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.

After some time, my reputation preceded me each time I was given a new posting.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.

I kind of have a bad-guy reputation.

I have a reputation for infamy.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.

In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received enough notice to satisfy my needs. I questioned the procedure out of fear. The Silver Jews was never meant to be recreated live.

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame.

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

I will either be famous or infamous.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

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'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.

Fame is a bitch, man.