Quotes About Notoriety

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

When it came to being a legend, all it took was one person to recognize that you were epic. That was it.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.

I had to let her know that the reason she'd never heard of me was because I was famous.

He asked her what she was famous for—everybody's famous for something

In most history, success is over-represented, for the victors out-write the losers. In the history of networks, the opposite often applies. Successful networks evade public attention; unsuccessful ones attract it, and it is their notoriety, rather than their achievement, that leads to their over-representation.

Had the Illuminati remained faithful to Weishaupt's original blueprint, they would long ago have been forgotten, if they had ever been heard of at all. The key to their growth and later notoriety was their infiltration of German Masonic lodges

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

At least I can say no player got as much attention from the Dream Team as I did.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

With all the evils of publicity and its causes for distress, I also realized no matter how unwilling a subject, the opportunities that it offered ultimately could only be counted on the credit side. I knew that if the sudden notoriety had catapulted me into a lucrative career and exciting new experiences, then I must use it in my life as a force for good. I hoped in the future that I would receive no more mention than my accomplishments or abilities deserved.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.