Adam West Quotes

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.

I think pop culture would have survived without me!

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary.

If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.

I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

When I walk down the street, even here in the U.S., they are always saying my catchphrases of my characters, and they shout at me with my catchphrases.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.