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 only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great — and they know I know it.”
“People think actresses find public-speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.”
“I know audiences feed on crap, but I cannot believe we are so lacking that we cannot dish it up to them with some trace of originality.”
“Public taste is an ascending spiral.”
“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
“Every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh.”
“I like to be introduced as America's foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort.”
“Would people applaud me if I were a good plumber?”
“I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.”
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
“I’m actually less Latin than Cameron Diaz, whose father is from Cuba. But she’s not getting called a Latin actress because she’s got blonde hair and blue eyes. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don’t speak Spanish. So, to say that I’m a Latin actress, OK, but it’s not fitting; it would be insincere.”
“Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.”
“I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.”
“I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.”
“As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.”
“The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.”
“I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.”
“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
“If you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”
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