Quotes About Popularity

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

You're the only one here with your own fan club

The key to changing the way people think is to change what's popular. That's why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

En la civilización del espectáculo, el intelectual sólo interesa si sigue el juego de moda y se vuelve un bufón.

Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

He was, after all, Darrow's rock star, its heartthrob-musical-genius-Shakespeare, the boy who made spontaneous rapping, poetry, and wearing tweed caps cool (all small miracles unto themselves)—the kid everyone loved, longed for, yet simultaneously wished dead. He had it. An energy force field.

Literary teas are constantly in a state of flux. The uninitiate gravitates toward the author, the author toward the editor or publisher, the publisher toward the reviewer, and the reviewer, in desperation, toward another drink. Since the general rule of conduct is to seek out those who can do one the most good, magazine editors and big-name reviewers enjoy much popularity.

Por dios, ¿por qué toda la gente quiere ser Paris Hilton y nadie quiere ser Spider Man?

As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good.

in those days children were rather out of fashion.

Often CEOs get that top job because they're like the guy in college who was the head of the fraternity. He wasn't the smartest guy, but he was the best social guy and a very likeable guy, and so he moved up through the ranks.

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.

Time had been when friends had thought it possible that he might fill the President's chair; but his name had been too much and too long in men's mouths for that. Who had heard of Lincoln, Pierce, or Polk, two years before they were named as candidates for the Presidency?

was it not all said and done and arranged with reference to his and her own popularity? When a man wants to be Prime Minister he has to submit to vulgarity, and must give up his ambition if the task be too disagreeable to him.

He who has many friends has no friends.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

Luke's eyes were wild. He was a little taller than me, but not quite as heavy. A lot of girls liked him because he was good looking with dark wavy hair. Not many guys liked him because all he cared about was himself.

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

He grinned and knee-patted and back-slapped; and few of his visitors, once they had talked with him, failed to look upon him as their Little Father and to support him forever. . .. The few who did fail, most of them newspapermen, disliked the smell of him more than before they had met him. . .. Even they, by the unusual spiritedness and color of their attacks upon him, kept his name alive in every column. . ..

I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.

While some people want to be popular, some of us simply want to be brave.