Quotes About Popularity

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

For one human like me who comes from a small town to blow up like that and sell out venues, its would be weird man.

I don't know why we sold a lot of records or why so many people came to see us. Like 'Sabotage' - would you put that song on, like, 'I'm gonna listen to that right now?' It's a weird choice.

I think when you're on a network show, it's crazy how different it is... just being on a network show that reaches that many people. It's not like I'm very famous, but seemingly overnight, I would get recognized more, and it was really weird.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

I see it as my job to try to make history to be a popular thing. The longer I keep going the less weird it will be to be a female historian.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.

Fame is the weirdest thing ever.

On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.

I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

I was a weirdo, but a well-liked weirdo.

I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.