Quotes About Popularity

Fame and success are very different things.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

One epoch's popular culture is another's esoterica.

she watched others tell their drunken bar stories, prostituting their families and their traumas for popularity and booze.