Quotes About Popularity

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

I've always been on the outside looking in. I was never popular in school, despite my success in athletics. I would win track and field competitions, but I wouldn't go to parties. I'd be alone.

In fact, I became popular in Kerala after I took part in a reality dance show and despite making my foray into films as an actress I make it a point to take part in stage shows whenever I find time.

The audience determines whether they still want to watch you or not.

What do you call success in our sport? What determines success? Are you successful if you are 10-0 and no one is watching your fights? Is that success?

The more we can make our developers famous, the better.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

Who's more important than Diana Ross?

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'

If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.

Spider-Man is loved by a huge range of people. I think the real target audience is people younger than 16. It's because he's going through what they're going through.

Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

My father would make music keeping public tastes in mind. I have inherited this from him.

More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.

In the States, I get recognised all the time. I met a fan once who had a tattoo of my face on his arm. I can see how some people get carried away with it, but I don't have trouble staying grounded.