Quotes About Notoriety

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

Some people know me, some people don't. Who would know Steve Jobs if he walked down the street?

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.

Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

I didn't get recognized a whole lot at first, but all of a sudden it just started happening. People would look at me out of the corner of their eye, deciding whether or not they were going to come up to me!

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

For a man of the secret world, you have a rather famous face.

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

I never wanted to be famous.

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

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

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.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.