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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.
I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.
This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.