Popularity Quotes - Page 4

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

Life is not a popularity contest

Popularity is for dolls.

Popularity can be a real headache.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

Popularity is not the single determining factor, as we all know, in how people vote.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

In theater, it's just you and the audience. It's less of a popularity contest. It's just you and the audience, and they're laughing or they're not laughing, that's the only gauge you really have. But with TV and movies and everything, it's like "Well, did you get a meeting at so-and-so?" and "So-and-so's really hot right now," which is all the stuff I'm probably still not used to.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

There are movies where I've walked onto the set and felt, "This is home," and I'm confident in myself and my work, but that was my first experience of live TV. At that stage, Friends was at its unassailable height of popularity and brilliance.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.