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Quotes About Popularity

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.
~ Vinnie Jones
Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.
~ Warren Buffett
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
~ Aaron Sorkin
If my fans want to call me a love God, then so be it!
~ Alexander O'Neal
The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.
~ Andy Warhol
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
~ Cass Elliot
Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.
~ Alex Chilton
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.
~ Clive James
The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
~ Courtney Love
None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
~ Denise Mina
Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.
~ Dominique Moceanu
Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.
~ Kenny Chesney
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
~ Michael Jackson
I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.
~ Michelle Williams
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
~ Placido Domingo
I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
~ Robert Smith
The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be famous. They want to be recognized. And I've gotten all that out of my system.
~ Rush Limbaugh
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
~ Jane Lynch
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
~ Paul Feig
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
~ Robert Greene
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
~ Terry Pratchett
You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.
~ Adrian Pasdar
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
~ Aisha Tyler