Popularity quotes

“After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.”
Carrie-Anne Moss

“What's awful about being famous and being an actress and being petite is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.”
Winona Ryder

“When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does. ”
Kirk Douglas

“I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.”
John Travolta

“We are having problems relaunching cinema as a popular art.”
Sergio Castellitto

“- Roger Taylor: You're a legend, Fred.
- Freddie Mercury: You're bloody right I am! We're all legends.”
Ben Hardy - Roger Taylor
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“I definitely don't Google my name.”
Jessica Simpson

“- Robert Robbie Ross: I must tell you, Father, the dying man has been quite a well-known literary figure.
- Father Cuthbert Dunne: Oh, well, that's all one and the same to God, Mr Ross. He has very little time to read, what with all us sinners clogging up the road to hell.”

Edwin Thomas - Robert Robbie Ross
Tom Wilkinson - Father Cuthbert Dunne

“God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.”
Peter Falk

“- Frank Adler: Diane instructed me very clearly... that I was only to publish it postmortem.
- Evelyn Adler: She died six years ago.
- Frank Adler: It wasn't her death she was talking about.”
Chris Evans - Frank Adler
Lindsay Duncan - Evelyn Adler

“- Lawrence Isabella: I've heard a lot about you.
- Joey Rosselini: Yeah? Good things, I hope.”
Ben Stiller - Lawrence Isabella
Adam Baldwin - Joey Rosselini

“- Arthur: So what happens now?
- Vortigern: You know what happens now. You're quickly becoming a legend.”
Charlie Hunnam - Arthur
Jude Law - Vortigern

“What's the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? Herman Melville wrote fuckin' Moby Dick, he was so poor and forgot by the time he died that in his obituary they called him Henry Melville. You know, like why bother? They're just going to forget our fuckin' names anyway.”
Martin Starr - Joel

“- Cindy: This is Ben's pathetic concept of cool, is to pretend he's not afraid.
- Ben: Well hello Cindy Freud, what's your concept of cool, Doc? Banging the whole entire senior class starting with A?”
Kristen Miller - Cindy
Michael Weston - Ben

I googled you, and "Closet Queens" came out. Are you a lesbian?

Adam Sandler - Jim

“- The Journalist: Most writers want to be famous.
- Jackie Kennedy: You want to be famous?
- The Journalist: No, I'm fine as I am.
- Jackie Kennedy: You should prepare yourself, this article will bring you a great deal of attention.
- The Journalist: Ah. In that case, any advice for me?
- Jackie Kennedy: Yes. Don't marry the president.”

Billy Crudup - The Journalist
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Claire Standish: Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.
- John Bender: Poor baby.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“I'm about as popular as a dose of strychnine.”
Michael Redgrave - Gilbert

“- Ted Pikul: He wanted to kill you. That's two people in one day who wanted to actually kill you.
- Allegra Geller: I've never been more popular.”
Jude Law - Ted Pikul
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Allegra Geller

“The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.”
Harrison Ford

“Never become more popular than the boss, unless you intend to sack him.”
Ian McNeice - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

“In Hollywood an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty per cent of publicity.”
Lauren Bacall

“I'm not a geek, I'm a unique weasel.”
Pauly Shore - Stoney Brown

“I wrote the script for Rocky in three days. I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary. And did that ever make the bestseller list?”
Sylvester Stallone

“I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.”
Pierre Coffin