Quotes About Notoriety

They used an old internal Microsoft term to describe it: "cookie licking," or the act of claiming to do something before you actually do it, in order to capture notoriety and prevent others from following.

Even notoriety may be turned to beneficent uses, and I rejoice if the disposition of the newspapers to record my activities results in bringing more often into their columns the word Socialism.

I feel very awkward about receiving attention for the wrong reasons.

If you have notoriety, you can dress any way you want to dress. That's the way it is. I just like to get dressed up. I think that they go hand in hand - notoriety and people lookin at ya. If they look at ya, either you look like a million dollars, or you don't. A guy can have a phenomenal body, but if the suit doesn't fit him, forget it.

Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.

For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.

I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

While fame travels slowly, at least notoriety travels fast- Russian proverb

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

Celebrity is intoxicating.

I've never been the kind of guy who finds attention irritating.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

If you can't be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?

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