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

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

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.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

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