It's one thing to never accomplish anything. You start from the bottom, you remain at the bottom, and all you know is the bottom. When you start at the bottom and you get to the top, and you feel the success and the notoriety and the recognition from being the champion, and you go back to losing, that's a tough place to be in.

Jordan Burroughs

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

You Wants Want

People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.

Adrian Younge

Music Money Business

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.

Alan Gerry

Music Woodstock Woods

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 that happens so frequently that, after a while - from a creative standpoint - you just want to be able to have that opportunity to work with the best people. That opportunity is available to you with a certain level of notoriety.

Alden Ehrenreich

Work Movies Love

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

Aldis Hodge

Years Year UN

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

Alessandro Nivola

Whatever T Star

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

Women Men Very

It's cool when the O-line gets the chance to get some notoriety.

Andrew Whitworth

Cool Chance T

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

Angela Ahrendts

T Shy Notoriety

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

Ariel Rechtshaid

You Yin Ways

My whole life has changed so much, and it's still constantly changing, but 'Moonlight' brought about a bunch of opportunities that were really surreal, from the Oscars and Golden Globes to the notoriety that it brought, to even doing things like working with Calvin Klein.

Ashton Sanders

Work Life Change

It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

Ato Essandoh

Life You Want

Defenders don't really get any sort of notoriety or anything like that.

Becky Sauerbrunn

Thing Thin T

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

Bess Myerson

Time Which Times

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

Teacher Car Wing

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

Music Change Wealth

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

Bill Nighy

Thing Thin T

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

Billy Carter

T Self Rough

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

Success Men Car

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

Brian Boitano

Work Great Your Body

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

Chemo gets all the notoriety, but for me, radiation was really the tough one.

Camille Grammer

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

Chris Mullin

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

Christian Laettner

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

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

David Duchovny

I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

David Eigenberg

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

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

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

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

Eric Balfour

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.

Evan Bayh

I'm not very interested in fame or notoriety at all - in fact, I'd be pretty bummed out if I woke up one day and I was, like, super, super famous. But the flipside of that is that I'm really passionate about my music, I'm really proud of it and I want it to be heard by as many people as possible, and I'm willing to embrace whatever comes with that.

Finneas

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

I came out of my mother's womb wanting to be a professional wrestler. But then notoriety and stardom happened, and I started getting cocky.

Goldust

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.

Hank Green

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.

Hank Green

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

Jack Kerouac

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

Jahlil Okafor

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

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

James Harden

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.

James Wolcott

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

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

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

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

John Grisham

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

It's one thing to never accomplish anything. You start from the bottom, you remain at the bottom, and all you know is the bottom. When you start at the bottom and you get to the top, and you feel the success and the notoriety and the recognition from being the champion, and you go back to losing, that's a tough place to be in.

Jordan Burroughs

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.

Kenny G

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.

Kip Thorne