Reputation and Popularity
Actors' quotes about their reputation and popularity
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This section includes actors and directors' quotes about reputation and becoming popular. It focuses on the relationship between actors, journalists, critics and fans. Movie stars tell the difficult times they spent trying to build a solid reputation that could make them worthy of esteem and acknowledgement, and not only of admiration and gossip. Quotes on reputation are the core of this section, along with a broader reflection about the role of the community in maintaining the public image of an artist.
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“The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.”
“Immortality is a by-product of good work. ”
“I think the average guy has always identified with me.”
“A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.”
“I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.”
“So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.”
“If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.”
“Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.”
- Also found in Career in Cinema
It was hard as a "sexpot", as I was labeled in the '60s and '70s, to have people take me seriously as a producer or director. They would rather see me without my clothes on.
- Also found in Hollywood and The Other Hollywood
“We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.”
“Someone once asked me, 'Why is it so many people hate you?' and I said, 'Do they? How super! I'm really quite pleased about it.'”
“You do a lead in a series, you're kind of in a bubble of self-containment and almost not really present in the world at all. You're really a brand more than a human being.”
“I never get recognised.”
“What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?”
“I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.”
“Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.”
“I'm only a product like a cake of soap. To be sold as well as possible.”
“It's a picture of yourself up there and if they don't like it, they don't like you.”
“Ordeal by comment card, known otherwise as death by a thousand cuts.”
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