Name Usage Quotes

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

I don't have any nicknames.

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

Nobody is keeping me from using my last name.

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

I went by Andy when I was younger.

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.

If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

I never used my surname. My full name is Atishi Marlena Singh.

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.