Quotes About Notoriety

#1. Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Don Henley

#2. I didn't notice it in those early years - I thought I was surrounded by people who wished me nothing but good. I heard the whispers and shrugged off the notoriety, the half-hidden glances and smirks. I

Kelly Gardiner

#3. Friedrich Bischinger, has gained notoriety by recommending that kids eat their boogers to help strengthen their immune systems.

Cary McNeal

#4. Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

Curtis Jackson

#5. Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Jack Kerouac

#6. Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.

Victor LaValle

#7. America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

Marilyn Manson

#8. Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

Patrick Stump

#9. I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety.

Truman Capote

#10. 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

P. J. Soles

#11. When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.

Dillon Burroughs

#12. Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...

Ouida

#13. The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

John Banville

#14. It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.

Chuck Klosterman

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

George William Curtis

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

Jane Austen

#17. Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Dan Poynter

#18. Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Bill Dixon

#19. I wasn't looking for notoriety [when we marched]. But if that's what it took [to get attention], I didn't care how many licks I got. It just made me even more determined to fight for our cause.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#20. A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.

Steve Truglia

#21. 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.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#22. You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

Dan Chaon

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

Mickey Rourke

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

Brian Boitano

#25. Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Donald Rumsfeld

#26. It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

John Patrick Shanley

#27. Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Terry Pratchett

#28. When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Bil Keane

#29. Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal ...

Marie Corelli

#30. Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Franz Grillparzer

#31. When wealth occupies a higher position than wisdom, when notoriety is admired more than dignity, when success is more important than self-respect, the culture itself overvalues "image" and must be regarded as narcissistic.

Alexander Lowen

#32. True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title...

Angie Morgan

#33. Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?

Alexandre Dumas

#34. You've gotta play the Hollywood game, and you know you're doing good the more notoriety you're getting, and that's gold. That's what every actor wants because then you know you're at another level.

Jeremy Luke

#35. I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Bokeem Woodbine

#36. It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

Confucius

#37. NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

#38. A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous.

Josh Malerman

#39. Renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

Ambrose Bierce

#40. You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

Oscar De La Hoya

#41. Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

Robert Redford

#42. There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

Bryan Cranston

#43. I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

Sarah Silverman

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

Eric Balfour

#45. Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.

James Joyce

#46. 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.

Troy Baker

#47. I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Ariel Rechtshaid

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

Steve Erickson

#49. Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Lana Turner

#50. Of course, I've told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it's God's will.

Kathy Griffin

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

Christopher Hitchens

#52. I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

Kirby Wright

#53. Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Edouard Manet

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

Clay Matthews III

#55. After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals can't talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices.

Georges Laraque

#56. I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

Ralph Lauren

#57. Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Amelia Earhart

#58. Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,

Walt Whitman

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

Harry Truman

#60. I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

Mary Crosby

#61. If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

Clint Eastwood

#62. For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term

Emily Thorne

#63. There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

Susan Orlean

#64. When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.

Thomas Friedman

#65. Achieving repute and notoriety is at first like the seemingly hopeless effort of pushing a large snowball up a hill, but eventually you will push it over the apex and watch it grow rapidly as it rolls effortlessly away.

Eric Birk

#66. No fame is actually worth much now-a-days, - because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity, - it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.

Marie Corelli

#67. You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Morgan Brittany

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

Bob Dylan

#69. Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.

George Bernard Shaw

#70. Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

Suzanne Fields

#71. There's a common perception, partially true, that rich people are above the law. It's true for a lot of us, but I have a feeling my notoriety could work against me. I'm the kind of guy prosecutors like to stick a case to. And I've got a dirty past.

Ella James

#72. Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

Jonathan Waterman

#73. Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same.
Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
Keep from letting fear make you settle for second best.

Kiera Cass

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

Bill Nighy

#75. Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

Valerie Trierweiler

#76. Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Roopal Patel

#77. This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Don Henley

#78. It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

Donna Rice

#79. The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Anthony Burgess

#80. 'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.

Scott Bakula

#81. To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

Michael Dorris

#82. Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

Ernie J Zelinski

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

James Harden

#84. Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle... Ogie Ogilthorpe!

Jim Carr

#85. The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

Michael Swanwick

#86. My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us ... [so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

Winston Churchill

#87. It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

James Russell Lowell

#88. Ancient fame carries a whiff of notoriety. People forget,or no longer care. One grows into another version of loneliness.

Carrie Snyder

#89. 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.

John Abbott

#90. Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

James Branch Cabell

#91. When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.

Steve-O

#92. It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

Louisa May Alcott

#93. You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.

Jaime Camil

#94. Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness ... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

Sherman Glenn Finesilver

#95. I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Diana Ross

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

Bess Myerson

#97. And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

Enid Bagnold

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

David Duchovny

#99. Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

Ray Bradbury

#100. I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

Matt Tong