Quotes About Popularity

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it's an event.

Que la gente intervenga en concursos donde haya que recordar las palabras de las canciones más populares, o los nombres de las capitales de los Estados, o cuánto maíz cosechó Iowa el último año. Llénalos de noticias incombustibles. Sentirán que la información los ahoga, pero se creerán inteligentes.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed that his unpopularity provided clinching evidence that his position was principled, because it was obvious that he was not courting popular opinion. His alienation, therefore, was a measure of his integrity.

There was in Madison's critical assessment of the state governments a discernible antidemocratic ethos rooted in the conviction that political popularity generated a toxic chemistry of appeasement and demagoguery that privileged popular whim and short-term interests at the expense of the long-term public interest.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Popular! In America, what else matters?

Now am I trying to win the favor of men, or of God? Do I seek to please men? If I were still seeking popularity with men, I should not be a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah). GALATIANS 1:10

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

A Bargain's Not A Bargain If Nobody Likes It.

Next Generation was immensely popular at the time, and I was still riding high on the success of Stand by Me. They couldn't understand why I was so intimidated by these actors – my face was splashed across the cover of every teen magazine in print. Why was I so intimidated? I was a 16 year-old geek, with a chance to meet The Big Three from Star Trek. You do the math.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it's easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Generalmente, es mejor caer en gracia que ser gracioso.