Quotes About Popularity

I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.

I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

I can earn more in a single weekend of convetioneering than I would in an entire month drawing comics. And I get a pretty high rate drawing comics.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

Sure, Obama is personally popular, but the same cannot be said for his policies or his legacy.

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

Back in the day, when 'Pony' came out, I don't believe there was anyone that could dance like me.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.

I personally don't like to draw a line between 'K-pop' and pop music, but I do think it is a good time for K-pop artists to be shown to the world, because the world is just ready for it.

When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like 'Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

I may not be top of the pops' anymore, but I seem to still be making a big impact.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Americans did not want to see a Mexican become more popular in boxing than Muhammad Ali.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

It's dangerous to be anybody popular.

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.