Top 45 Notoriety Quotes

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

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.

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

I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

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

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

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.

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.

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

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

We can’t recreate Woodstock, nor do we want to. We want to turn its notoriety into a place where we can shape controlled, scaled-down musical events of all sorts.

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.

Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things – everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.

I work with young people, and I know that we must be careful. Newspaper headlines, sudden notoriety, and important comparisons can lead to confusion.

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.

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big ‘Brady Bunch’ reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

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.

Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.

I’ve never personally criticized anyone else’s music, but I know that the public’s real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

I guess I get the most notoriety from my shooting. But I like passing and movement, making the game easy.

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

It’s a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it’s difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I’ve done so much for the WWE. Everything I’ve done, any movie I’ve done, any notoriety I have, it’s because of them.

Y’all should be happy for me. It’s funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn’t even that big, but I’m still getting a lot of notoriety because my songs do really well. I’m working hard and minding my own business and trying to do something I’m super passionate about.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I have a lot of notoriety now because of the Stormy Daniels case. I was less well known before outside of legal circles.

‘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.

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

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s – like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

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.