Mainstream Quotes - page 2

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something. (Famke Janssen)
When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. View quote
Graham Joyce
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. View quote
Ed Harris
I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream. View quote
Amy Chua
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer. View quote
David Mazzucchelli
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. View quote
Alex Kapranos
Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry? View quote
Andrew Dost
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. View quote
Anthony Anderson
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. View quote
Anurag Kashyap
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music. (Adam Kluger)
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream." View quote
Cesar Romero
The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes. View quote
Curt Weldon
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. View quote
Curt Weldon
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. View quote
Carter Burwell
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box. View quote
Dirk Benedict
We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work. View quote
Donna Shalala
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? View quote
Emilio Estevez
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. (Howard Fineman)
Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me. View quote
Jessie Ware
I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around. View quote
John Astin
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. View quote
John Kufuor
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. View quote
Jonathan Kozol