Quotes About Popularity

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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

I will either be famous or infamous.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

You may have heard of me.

Thronging the bridges and the quays along both banks of the river, a crowd of many thousands accompanied the spectacle with ah's and oh's and even some "long live"'s--although the king had ascended his throne more than thirty-eight years before and the high point of his popularity was long since behind him. Fireworks can do that.

If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing yourself as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it's this struggle to do better that endears you to your fans.

the Lost City of White Male Privilege, a controversial municipality whose very existence is often denied by many (mostly privileged white males). Others state categorically that the walls of the locale have been irreparably breached by hip-hop and Roberto Bolaño's prose. That the popularity of the spicy tuna roll and a black American president were to white male domination what the smallpox blankets were to Native American existence.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Gin was smart enough to know if she had limited the party to just her girlfriends, it would be a very small one: namely her and Sandy. It's not that the girls at school didn't like Gin. It was more like they tolerated her. Not that Gin wasted any energy trying to be friends.

I've had cameos on some cool shows.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?