I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.
I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.
At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
