Quotes About Pop-culture

Both the Star Wars and Friday the Thirteenth franchises have much to answer for.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters' and 'Knight Rider' and Hot Wheels commercials. When I got to college, having never set foot in America, I knew more American pop-culture references than my friends did.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

She came back from the eighties to save mankind. Martha Quinn is our only hope.

Civilians and pop-culture psychologists talk as though achieving bravery is the end of the journey. It's not, it's the beginning. And after learning bravery, you must learn to deal with pain. Because after true bravery, there's always pain." Lisbeth's smile turned sad. "Unless you die." Trace nodded. "Yes. Unless you die. Bravery is dangerous. Cowards live longer.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

Genre stuff is really hard to pull off, as any fans of it know.

The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons.

Marvel is obviously a giant, global super-brand, so being a part of that is exciting because of the huge built-in audience and the appetite for it.

Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Or a T-shirt that says Cash Me Outside How Bah Dat.

I was always aware of 'Doctor Who,' but I didn't grow up with it.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.'

When you're hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don't always know if your friends know what you're referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh.

The popularity of Dilbert, The Office, and any number of other pop-culture windows on cubicle life attests to the dark absurdism with which many Americans have come to view their white-collar work."2 It has been only in the past hundred years that work has become this way. In the centuries of civilization prior, many more of us had crafts and skills that gave us pride.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."