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.
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
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.
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.
Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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.
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.
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.
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.
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.
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
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.
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
