Quotes About Popularity

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

The new MX-5 is like the new Ford Mondeo and the Subaru Legacy Outback. It is one of those cars that's absolutely brilliant ... and nobody buys it. You never see one on the road.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

I'm famous. That's my job.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

The TV birth of Little Ricky was watched by an incredible 44 million viewers—15 million more than would tune in President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day on all three networks.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago ' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

I refer to the view that we have no alternatives to the models of corporate capitalism, social democratic or Soviet socialism, or technocratic "fascism with a smiling face." The popularity of this view is largely due to the fact that little effort has been made to study the feasibility of entirely new social models and to experiment with them.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ein Klassiker ist ein Buch, das die Leute loben, aber nicht lesen.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

Popular! ' Dad roared. 'Popular! that's the magic word isn't it. That's what's the matter with this generation. nobody thinks about being smart, or clever, or sweet, or even attractive. No sir. They want to be skinny and flat chested and popular. They'd sell their soul and body to be popular, and if you ask me lot of them do.

Siate maledetti tutti voi che cercate l'onore attraverso la demagogia. Possiate restarmi ignoti, voi che non esitate a danneggiare i vostri amici pur di dire qualcosa che risulti gradita alla folla.

For instance, I love the movie Casablanca. Who doesn't? No matter how many egghead critics declare Citizen Kane to be the greatest American movie, we all know it's Casablanca in fact.

Never confuse leadership with popularity.'158

Never confuse leadership with popularity.