Quotes About Notoriety

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

Well, it made you famous.

I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

It is true everyone is going to enjoy their 15 minutes of fame, but they're going to have to sell their souls for it. For those who chase it, I hope it's worth the drama.

crave some form of attention

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behaviour with stardom

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

I had mixed feelings when the entire country was celebrating the death of Pablo Escobar and even Bill Clinton was congratulating the government.

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.

Popularity means people think they know you.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.