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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

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.

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.