Quotes About Popularity

the best possible fortress is—not to be hated by the people

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.

Word of mouth is everything.

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world.

I don't really care to be a movie star.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention.

I've never done anything in my career that has gotten as much attention as 'House of Cards.'

When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.

We know how fickle the public and the music industry is.

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.'

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.