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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“A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying.”
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”
“The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.”
“I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.”
“My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.”
“I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.”
“There are times when I want to get out of the business. Everybody wants to make these big epic entertainments. They're empty. And worst of all, a lot of them just aren't very well made, but the critics go overboard.”
“I really look so different off the screen that at a recent luncheon a certain prominent Hollywood actress who sat next to me didn't recognize me and all through luncheon accepted me as a girl apparently trying to break into pictures and gave me words of advice and warning. But when someone told her my name was Merle Oberon she became embarassed...” (continue)(continue reading)
“People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.”
“They [the Hollywood studios] are into the flavor of the month, and that's the reality you have to live with as an actress. Nothing you can do about it.”
“You don't become a rock star for no reason.”
At my first party there (given for me), I overheard someone say, "He's the guest of honor? Who the fuck is he?". That brought me down to earth.
When I first arrived in Hollywood, I met a studio executive who said, "Loved your work, Joe". When I asked what he had seen me in, he said, "Nothing".
“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.”
“I don't like to be mean to fans, but I have to have cops around me now. The worst is when people come up and just grab you.”
I stopped signing autographs after I was asked to sign one, while standing at a urinal in a restaurant. I was already quite cool about the idea after being asked for about the thousandth time, "Can you remove your sunglasses so we can see your blue eyes?" I started saying, "I'm so sorry, but if I take off my glasses, my pants fall down." Which... (continue)(continue reading)
“I dislike the flashbulbs so much. What I have learned is, the best way to cope with all the fuss and maintain one's dignity is to remain quiet. Smile now and then, but stay quiet. And you should not care too much what people will think or say about you; you cannot control it anyway.”
“I'm not naturally paranoid, but you gotta watch your every move. That, or the public does. Ever since I got arrested and jailed for smoking pot, I get all sorts of people, and actors sometimes, looking at me funny when I light up a cigarette. Hell, I like to shock people, so I'm not about to quit.”
“I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.”
“If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.”
“When you're famous people feel free to stare. No matter where or what the situation. And they stare as if you can't see them staring at you. Or as if it doesn't matter!”
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