Quotes About Popularity

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.