Notoriety Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When you put winning football teams out there consistently, you get these nationally televised games. You get the notoriety that you deserve. That's the way it works, and that's the way it should be.

People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.

from a business perspective, it's great for the NBA... Notoriety sells.

I think the celebrities are part of the shift from the supermodel moment, and they are bringing new energy to the industry, ... They are our ambassadors of fashion now, and they use their fame and notoriety and celebrity to bring attention to the industry and to the brands -- whether they are making them, selling them or wearing them.

It is a very, very important issue and, as we try to communicate all the time, it has been and remains at the top of our concerns, ... Just because we don't get the notoriety of having a Prius doesn't mean we don't have a comprehensive strategy in the area of fuel economy.

I think each one of them has certainly earned it. The better your team does, the more notoriety you are going to get. The guys who have made the all-star game, they put in the hard work for it, but should be just as thankful toward their teammates. Without good players around you, you don't get to excel like that.

I think she'll be a very good contender. I don't think she'll win the championship I don't know if I can win it but it's great to see somebody like Erin coming in. It gives us notoriety and shows the diversity we have out there.

I think one reason we got the notoriety for this is just telling people that the oceans are not OK.

I'm so excited that our team is finally getting the credit we deserve. We've been dominating the league for a few years and not gotten the proper notoriety and attention. We've kind of come full circle with that.

I would love for someone with more notoriety than myself who has more broad-base appeal you know like a major artist, I would love for Garth Brooks to record it.

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.

Traditionally, news organizations are very careful about reporting bomb threats. We don't want to prompt copycats who might see the story and seek attention by duplicating the bomb threats or to give any notoriety to the person who was calling in those bomb threats.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Without the notoriety of the band, I wouldn't bring a Division I-AA team to Seattle. I felt the band gave the game the fan appeal that would make it a true event.

When you don't win, you don't get the notoriety and the publicity. This will make me work that much harder to make sure it doesn't happen again.

When we look at events, we look at them in two ways. There are certain track rental opportunities that have better (profit) margins than others ... so we'll look at those. We also look at things that will bring notoriety to the track. Anything that can brand the speedway is something that's of interest to us. That plays a role when we're deciding who gets preference on certain days.

We were patient because we wanted the partnership with them and the notoriety they would bring San Mateo County.

We certainly don't have the notoriety here, as say, Yamhill County. They're so much closer to Portland, so they have a much larger population to draw on.

We're very guarded about who we are. We know we haven't beaten teams of notoriety and that we caught a brand-new Carolina team on the road so I'm a little hesitant to anoint this team at this point. But we're happy with our holdover players. We're growing and building and that's what we want to do.

'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.

Once you have the notoriety for creating something, the money part of the deal will take care of itself.

As far as a lot of smaller companies go, there's always a risk but they have a reasonable amount of security through obscurity. If they take reasonable steps, they are pretty safe because they're not public targets and don't have the notoriety of a U.S. Air Force or Pentagon.

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.

You're not selling the property for the property sake itself. You're using the ill-gotten notoriety of one of the country's most famous serial killers to jack up the price.

This could totally backfire. Virus writers are very much driven by the same motivation that makes people climb mountains. To put a bounty on their heads will just increase their notoriety and increase their ego.

This particular case has a certain degree of notoriety for all sorts of reasons that are irrelevant to her medical condition,

It's a tall order to fill. It would bring a lot of notoriety to Incline Village and it's another great chance to put Incline on the map, but I've called a few people in town and I'm just not sure we've got what they need.

It's fine, man. When you get an opportunity, the increase in notoriety will come. There's really enough here for everybody.

The notoriety of that type of company and the spin-off potential of the businesses that follow them is a great thing.

Everybody I talk to, the thing they say that impresses them most about Cadillac is his humility. All I ever hear is how he's never gotten caught up in the notoriety and the status that he's earned.

It's in a big transition. The sport has a lot of notoriety and it's the new Euro-sheik thing. But it's at a fork in the road.

It was great in the beginning. I got a lot of notoriety about it in Double-A. Now it's getting to the point where it's past that time. It's a time where whenever anyone writes something about me, it's, 'Oh, he has a great on-base percentage.' Well, in order to have a good on-base percentage you've got to hit, too.

notoriety that has spread all over the globe.

It's night and day. Last year, it was overwhelming for him sometimes. I really think he got caught up a little bit with the notoriety and magnitude of the game. This year, he understands the offense and is starting to trust his guys. He's not really putting it on his shoulders.

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

I mean really, completely honestly, this is a different world just in terms of pure numbers. There weren't that many to watch back then in those days, and (anchormen) were able to gain huge notoriety very quickly. We completely understand that that's not the world that we live in right now. There are a lot of things to be seen.

I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to do two studio albums, a live album and an all-acoustic album, a solo album, which I have yet to do. And then I was just going to take whatever notoriety I had and I was going to come to like California and try to get small bit parts in movies or something. Small parts, not leading parts, not like Elvis Presley did. I'm talking about just small parts and then maybe just play music on the side. It just didn't work out that way.

I feel Bush should leave it alone. This is just a ploy to bring more notoriety to himself.

I do personally believe the notoriety that the community received contributed to the explosion of growth,

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

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

Their notoriety is going to play a factor in this as well. We have to take into account their safety in prison.

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

All of the notoriety is on pharmaceuticals - they are on employers' radar screens.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...

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

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.