top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
Standard
Customized
More
"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
Freedom
"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
Actor
"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
Work
"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
People
"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
Want
"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."
Clothes
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
Medical
"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."
People
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
Mother
"My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem."
Apology
bottom of page