Quotes About Popularity

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that's not how things works. These are real human beings. They don't just date to get more famous. They're already the most famous artists!

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

I guess guys who play on national TV get a lot of publicity.

Whenever you have publicity, it's always a good thing.

The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.

If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come and read it.

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.

Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

Obviously, CM Punk is a really big draw for the UFC. He's going to bring a lot of eyes to the UFC, and the better he does, the better it'll be for all MMA fighters as far as sponsorships and stuff.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

Everybody loved 'The A-Team' because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

There's definitely been some songs in the past that we've put out, and it was purely us going, 'Okay, we think radio will play this. We think this will be a hit. This will be big for the show,' and all this stuff. But it's like, do you really believe in it?