Quotes About Pop Culture

#1. MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

Megan Alexander

#2. In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.

Jeff Lemire

#3. I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

Martin Scorsese

#4. I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

John Shirley

#5. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

Shawn Amos

#6. There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.

Matisyahu

#7. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#8. Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

Michael De Luca

#9. Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Bruce Willis

#10. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.

Cory Doctorow

#11. It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens a door into a feeling of comfort, meaning, or familiarity. It is called an aesthetic aha.

Derek Thompson

#12. I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

Wes Bentley

#13. Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Gloria Steinem

#14. For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

Marina And The Diamonds

#16. Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

Beth Ditto

#17. The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

Shawn Amos

#18. If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

Shawn Wayans

#19. Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.'
'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly.

E.C. Myers

#20. It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

Jason Najum

#21. When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

Dylan Lauren

#22. It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

R.L. Stine

#23. How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

Thomas F. Wilson

#24. After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Jason Najum

#25. You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Jaleel White

#26. There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they'd be married to Heidi Klum.

Stephen Merchant

#27. More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

Charles Bowen

#28. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#29. I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

Zack Snyder

#30. Pop culture is like our subconscious.

Hanna Rosin

#31. I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.

Lady Gaga

#32. I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

Emeli Sande

#33. Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture.

Geoff Johns

#34. I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

Misha Collins

#35. The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process - picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

RuPaul

#36. Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

James Wolcott

#37. Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.

Alyssa Milano

#38. There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

Iggy Pop

#39. I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

Laurie Foos

#40. I think 'Spider-man' is a pop culture rock show that was meant to be in arenas.

Michael Cohl

#41. Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Chris Hardwick

#42. I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.

Jason Najum

#43. I saw the first 'House Party' - not the other 10. I love pop culture references. If you saw 'Moneyball', watch it again, looking for all the Clash posters.

Brian Shactman

#44. My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I'm going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture. I'm in hot pursuit, always.

Lyor Cohen

#45. A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#46. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Shia Labeouf

#47. On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]

Peter O'Donnell

#48. Pop culture was the new religion. The era of the matinee idol was long gone. At the forefront of all things cool was the pop star, the rock artist. They were the new gods, and to be in a band, to be part of it all, was like joining an international religion, becoming part of a holy order.

Erich Rautenbach

#49. It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.

Terry Teachout

#50. Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Jonah Hill

#51. I want my rockstars dead.

Bill Hicks

#52. To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing.

Chad Hurley

#53. I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Marina And The Diamonds

#54. I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.

Jen Lancaster

#55. Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Jonny Greenwood

#56. Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

Gene Simmons

#57. Pop culture was in art
Now, art's in pop culture in me

Lady Gaga

#58. Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.

Willis Earl Beal

#59. We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

Jeffrey Deitch

#60. I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.

Josh Thomas

#61. I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.

Nick Rhodes

#62. The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

Billy Graham

#63. On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

Tyra Banks

#64. Your advanced alien science is no match for our spunky Earthling pop culture.

James L. Cambias

#65. I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

Tamra Davis

#66. Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Diablo Cody

#67. There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Feist

#68. A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.

Christian Louboutin

#69. Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Aisha Tyler

#70. Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

#71. Goosing my own Maverick.

Caitlin Moran

#72. I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.

Demetri Martin

#73. I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

Johnny Marr

#74. Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Trevor Dunn

#75. I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

G. Willow Wilson

#76. In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

Zack Snyder

#77. ...you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves "worrying about" Amanda Bynes.

Mindy Kaling

#78. One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

Zack Snyder

#79. He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy

Saira Viola

#80. Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

Cher

#81. Seinfeld was typically American in that show. He was a pretty funny guy, but he had no sense of style. Tacky like a Texan tux. Tasteless dressing and tasteful jokes. That's Seinfeld for me. I would have preferred it the other way around.

Hallgrimur Helgason

#82. Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Lady Gaga

#83. There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.

Nick Fradiani

#84. I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

Zach Galifianakis

#85. (Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

Lisa Henry

#86. I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee.

Andrea K. Host

#87. The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Nora Ephron

#88. I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

Lykke Li

#89. People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

Joss Whedon

#90. How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

Adam West

#91. I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

Will Gluck

#92. Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

Iggy Pop

#93. Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride
never a dull moment!

Gregory Chaitin

#94. I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#95. Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

Marilyn Manson

#96. The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.

Hasan Minhaj

#97. Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

Michel Gondry

#98. The grim and gritty '90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is.

Jamie McKelvie

#99. For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Michael Showalter

#100. She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad ... How can you help but love her?

Melissa Harris-Perry