Quotes About Popularity

Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Has 'jump the shark' jumped the shark?" ("Granted, Jump the Shark is a brilliant cultural concept.… But now the damn thing is everywhere.") Like any good meme, it spawned mutations. The "jumping the shark" entry in Wikipedia advised in 2009, "See also: jumping the couch; nuking the fridge.

Uncle Fester brought me back with the young group. He was very 'in' with the teens.

My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were hard for me, I wouldn't be doing this work. Rather, I think I'd be more sad when a day come when people don't recognize me.

I still feel very uncomfortable with the term 'celebrity' because I don't see myself as one.

It's an uncommon phenomenon, but Mahesh's popularity has never been dictated by the success of his films.

Minnie loves everyone, unconditionally. That's the way she sees the world, which is probably one of the reasons she is as popular as she is.

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.

Republicans keen to shake Donald Trump loose from the party underestimate his popularity at their peril.

I really underestimated how many people are paying attention to 'Jeopardy' and what's out there.

A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

You got a lot of girls out there that can rhyme and are underground, but it's sex appeal that makes people really big.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.

I hate that people have made the term SoundCloud rapper into a bad thing, because a lot of artists are underground and they don't have a way to put their music on. But to get that clout, to get that popularity, you might want to upload your music to SoundCloud - because how else is everybody going to hear it?

We don't really want to be the 'Late Night' of the Internet. We want to have one foot in the mainstream, one foot in the underground.

The Left discovered that its post-electoral strategy of constant confrontation was actually helping Felipe Calderon and his popularity instead of undermining it. So Marcelo Ebrard, the mayor of Mexico City, who's a very savvy politician, he changed course. He decided to actually govern instead of simply trying to bring the Calderon government down.

I'd rather be someone that's underrated than overrated.