Quotes About Notoriety

I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it's not about my other business. It's about bringing the notoriety to a great city.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.

Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

Daniel Bryan looks like he doesn't want the attention, but he does. He acts like he doesn't want the notoriety, but he does.

Coming out of college, I got a lot of notoriety for being the old-school center.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

What happens at McGregor's team is that they all talk like Conor McGregor but they don't do what he does. They try to do it. They gain notoriety by talking, and that's a mistake.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity.

Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.