Wade Barrett Quotes

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

When you leave Washington, you may miss Washington, but Washington will not miss you.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

Out of sight, out of mind.

I had so many friends over the years - so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, 'When are you coming back to TV?'

I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets.

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.