Quotes About Popularity

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

My dream customer is every celebrity that's on the red carpet, everybody at the Met Gala, and on top of that, just everybody and anybody. I would dress everybody.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in 'Nick and Norah.' People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don't run at the box office. I make films for the masses.

Some people can handle fame, some can't.

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

The popular girls let me hang out with them because I was funny. They told me that. 'You're not popular, but you're funny.' Now all my friends are funny.

We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you've just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.

It's so vacuous, this job. You're constantly looking at pictures of yourself, talking about yourself. Then I come back home, and all my mates want to talk about is me because I've been hanging out with Elton John and stuff.

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.