Popularity Quotes

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

I have always said that 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' has the most amazing and loyal fans on the planet.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

When you can't make up your mind about which shoe to choose, you post a photo to SnapChat and ask the fans.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? That's an analogy, I guess.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary.

I could not afford to hang men for votes.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Any man who tells the people what they want to hear is usually pretty popular

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right... As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.