Don Adams Quotes

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.

'Psych' is a cult show, and anytime a show takes on a cult status, it means that the fans are a huge part of it.

I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

The word 'cult' is almost a nice way of saying a lot of people hate you, or have never heard of you. It means someone can come up to me in the street who's really into my stuff, who's seen everything I've done, but the guy standing beside them has no idea who I am. Even in Glasgow. I think that's cult.

I have seen the movie 'Showgirls' over 25 times.

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

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

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

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?

'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'