Nick Offerman Quotes

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

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

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

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

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

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

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'

I can't bear the idea or concept of being a 'celeb.'

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

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.