Quotes About Popularity

No one likes to think of themselves as a one-trick pony as an actor, but on the other hand, it's nice to be part of something that has an international popularity, that is seen literally everywhere in the world and stays in the marketplace forever.

I get cheered more and more for one simple reason: When I step in the ring, I steal the show! I will not accept anything less from myself.

The audience wants to hear 'Rock n' Me,' 'Space Cowboy,' 'Living in the U.S.A.' When you start to play something else, you can feel the interest and enthusiasm go; the steam goes out of room. They are really 'Greatest Hits' fans and that's what they want to hear. It's disappointing that it's this way in the U.S.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

I remember kids in high school and middle school who - I was kind of an insecure mess - I think there were those kids who really stepped out and paid attention to the kids that weren't as popular, and I see those kids as leaders.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

A fav'rite has no friend!

that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

The winner of the game is the one with all the names.

Almost all of us have the hankering to be famous, to be important, to be admired, to stand out, but the assumption is you have to be different or better to get that. No. The best thing is to be famous, to be cuddled by the public, but to be like everyone else.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30 000 and 50 000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

I was always the popular kid that everyone hated. There was no reason for anyone to hate me. I never really did anything wrong. They just didn't like me, so I had to fight back all the time.

I feel lucky, where I'm not 'famous' famous. I'm not someone that everyone kind of knows for no reason. If people know who I am, they like me because if they didn't like me, they forgot about me.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they're never nominated for awards.

I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.