Harold Brodkey Quotes

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

I kind of wish people didn’t know who I am, that I could just lie, say I’m a speechwriter for Obama. This is what I said before Twilight. And then Obama came along and picked up all these young writers. I found out this guy, Jon Favreau — who’s not the actor Jon Favreau — is writing for him. And I was like, Wow, I wonder if the people who thought I was bullshitting at the time are like, ‘Oh my god. That guy! That kid who was drunk in some bar actually wrote the health care bill!’

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

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

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.