Notoriety Quotes · Page 2

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

— James Branch Cabell

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Kip Thorne

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

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

— Michael Israel

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

— Chris Mullin

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

— Jahlil Okafor

All of the notoriety and all of the publicity that I have had since I was in eighth grade could be gone…

— Sony Michel

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not…

— Sherman Glenn Finesilver

When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same…

— Robert Redford

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public…

— Hank Green

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

With 'Dancing With the Stars,' there was an opportunity that was put before me because of a level of notoriety, but then…

— Ariana Madix

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little…

— Winston Churchill

There's movies that I would've loved to be in that I just wasn't even considered for because they need a name. And…

— Alden Ehrenreich

As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a…

— Jello Biafra

“There’s a common perception, partially true, that rich people are above the law. It’s true for a lot of us, but I…

— Ella James

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals -…

— Robert Dallek

I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was…

— Robert Davi

It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its…

— T. D. Jakes

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is…

— Troy Baker

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

— Michael Dorris

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

— Bill Nighy

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

— Eric Balfour

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Lemmy

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

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Don Henley

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

— Valerie Trierweiler

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

— Michael Avenatti

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

— Don Henley

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

— Kobe Bryant

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— John Grisham