Quotes About Popularity

I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.

It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

The majority of scientific papers are published by a very small group of scientists. A tiny proportion of musicians produces almost all the recorded commercial music. Just a handful of authors sell all the books. A million and a half separately titled books (!) sell each year in the US. However, only five hundred of these sell more than a hundred thousand copies.

can't see how this behaviour would have improved his popularity or status.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken to hum it and the street organs to play it, so the work of art that has appealed to the sham connoisseurs, that is admired by the uncritical, that is not content to rouse the enthusiasm of only a chosen few, becomes for this very reason, in the eyes of the elect, a thing polluted, commonplace, almost repulsive.

and, indeed, just as the most charming tune in the world becomes vulgar, intolerable, as soon as the general public is humming it, as soon as the street - organs have taken it up, the work for which charlatan art fanciers do not remain indifferent, the work which nitwits do not challenge, which is not satisfied with arousing the enthusiasm of the few, also becomes, by virtue of that very fact, corrupted, banal, almost repellent to the initiated.

You have a gift for making friends who are much cooler than you are.

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

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

When it comes to dealing with God, most of us spend considerable time trying our own hands at either being or making gods. Jesus blocks the way. Jesus is not a god of our own making and he is certainly not a god designed to win popularity contests.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.