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Quotes About Popularity

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
~ Oscar Wilde
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
~ Nellie Melba
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
~ Sir George Savile
A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
~ Andy Warhol
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
~ Lord Byron
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~ Voltaire
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
~ Rhodesian proverb
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
~ John Lithgow
I was nominated 13 times during my 15-week stay in 'Bigg Boss' but they couldn't get me out. That is because I was truthful and entertained the audience with my good sense of humour.
~ Puneet Issar
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
~ Oscar Wilde
I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
~ Dolly Parton
You know, one year with 'Glenn Campbell and his Good Time Hour' and people know you too well. To me, when someone is on the tube every day then they become ordinary.
~ Eddie Rabbitt
There is a risk women's football becomes the most popular spectator sport that fans tune into every four years but are not interested in parting with their money to watch the same players on their doorstep.
~ Eniola Aluko
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
~ Cameron Mackintosh
Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.
~ Rory Bremner
Working on 'Good Luck Charlie' has been an awesome experience, and it's so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.
~ Bridgit Mendler
You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.
~ Eddie Alvarez
Anything can become a big tune in Scandinavia because people decide what they want to listen to. So I think that's very motivating because songwriters can really think outside the box. A great song - whether or not it's radio-friendly - can really blow up here.
~ Astrid S
Drake can do that well, he can have the hottest tune every summer for the next 20 years, and that's how he does his things. But naaaaah, I might go away for three years, you know what I mean?
~ Kano