“The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”
Bruce Barton
“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become”
Mark Twain
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Jack Kerouac
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
Immanuel Kant
“An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.”
Fred Allen
“Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right”
“Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.”
Vanna Bonta
