Quotes About Popularity

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

I think everyone is pretty excited about me. I have a style that any fight fan would love. I am a real value-for-money fighter. People want to see me against the elite.

Well, it made you famous.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

He made you look desirable! And let's face it, you can use all the help you can get in that department. You were about as romantic as dirt until he said he wanted you. Now they all do. You're all they're talking about.

Katniss! Katniss! I can hear my name called from all sides. Everyone wants my kisses.

It's just the kind of story that catches fire.

Only those books which consistently produce high profits are allowed to survive, and a number of "good books" have slipped quietly out of print. It is less likely than it used to be for a scholar or a teacher or a librarian - or a child - simply to come in contact with a book which is neither brand new nor extremely popular.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.

I think 'Candy Crush' may be fading in popularity, but there's always something new that's popping up.

Generally, the biopics are made on the personalities about whom much is not known. But if someone who is already popular and everyone knows about his life then I don't see a point in making a biopic on his life unless you are telling something new about that person.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.