Quotes About Notoriety

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

unwanted notoriety to La Porte. It was not his purpose, said Smith, either "to defend the character of Belle Gunness" or "to drag it down." From the "dismembered bodies of nine persons [that] were found

would achieve lasting notoriety, becoming a permanent part of our national folklore. His name was Alfred Packer

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame. I like people stopping me in the street and saying, 'Can I have a photo?'

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

Fame is a very strange animal.

Hyperpartisan stories on Fox News or outbursts on Breitbart gained viewership thanks to retransmission by Russian bots. Russian support helped fringe right-wing sites such as Next News Network gain notoriety and influence. Its videos were viewed about 56 million times in October 2016.

Celebrity is titillating for a million reasons, right? So I think that's a fun part of it. This job that we do is weird. It's a very specific, odd industry to be a part of on many levels. When you're starting out, it's got a series of interesting quirks. And as you become more successful those quirks just change.

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.

Oh, it's fun to be an icon!