Ryan Holiday Quotes

One thing which I know about this world of glamour is that it is better to have people talking about you than not being talked about at all.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

People may trash me, but at least they're talking about me.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

I can generate attention quickly.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

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

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

I hate fame.

It's funny being the big news every day - and the good news every day.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

I don't really get recognised very much.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

Celebrity is obscurity biding its time.

I have no desire to be famous at all.

I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.

To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.