Quotes About Popularity

I want to be famous everywhere.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I wonder if anyone works any harder at anything than kids do at being popular.

Josie already knew the answer. This group of kids—they weren't her friends. Popular kids didn't really have friends; they had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust—at any moment someone might make you the laughingstock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

People who strive for popularity tend to lack the strength inside to be themselves.

When your're nothing, people will ignore you but when you're on top that's when everybody swear they know you.

All you need is for one person to think you're cool, and you're in. Everyone else will be scared to question it.

You cant make a million friends without getting a few haters. But remember, haters only hate the person they can't be.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

He who hath many friends hath none.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

Popularity doesn't mean anything when your surrounded by fake friends who can care less about who you are in the inside, but accept what you look like on the outside.

If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

You know you're awesome when people you don't even know hate you.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

'Y&R' is the No. 1 show, and the acting company is exceptional.

I've been in television for a little bit, and when people are attracted to what you've created, you get very excited because of the numbers. The business side is very exciting.