Quotes tagged ‘Fandom’

“They’re the most honest — especially if you’re talking about teenage girls, but older as well. They have that bullshit detector. You want honest people as your audience. We’re so past that dumb outdated narrative of ‘Oh, these people are girls, so they don’t know what they’re talking about.’ They’re…”

— Harry Styles, rollingstone.com

“I know, Jerry, that you are as human as the rest of us, if not more so.”

— Paul D. Zimmerman, Rupert Pupkin, Robert De Niro, imdb.com

“I'm sure you can understand. Doing the kind of show I'm doing, it's mind-boggling. There's so much stuff that comes down... you can't keep your head clear. And if that's the case, I'm wrong. You're right. I'm wrong. If I'm wrong, I apologize. I'm just a human being... with all of the foibles and all…”

— Paul D. Zimmerman, Rupert Pupkin, Robert De Niro, imdb.com

“Rupert Pupkin: I'm gonna work 50 times harder, and I'm gonna be 50 times more famous than you. Jerry Langford: Then you're gonna have idiots like you plaguing your life!”

— Paul D. Zimmerman, Rupert Pupkin, Robert De Niro, imdb.com

“If there are people who like the work you’ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that’s really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.”

— Stan Lee, usatoday.com

“The cynicism that regards all hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”

— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com

“I have a thing with people that I don't really get star struck, I just see them as people. I feel at ease around them. I appreciate their art and their work and everything that I do but I don't get so starstruck.”

— Gal Gadot, glamourmagazine.co.uk

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

“Disdaining the wasteful, elitist space where bands hankered after record-company expense accounts that would pay for hookers and villas in the South of France, Silicon Valley presented itself as the tribune of average-Joe air guitarists who never got their shot at the American Dream. It was easy to…”

— David Samuels, nplusonemag.com

“Sometimes what being a fan seems to be most about is self-defeat.”

— David Shields, amazon.com