Michael Moore Quotes

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

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

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Celebrity is very weird.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

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.'

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

I know in our mainstream culture, the loudest voices and the most shocking voices are the ones that get the noise.

Donald Trump was really cool. I think a lot of people don't understand him. He brings so much media attention to anything he does. He's a proven success. I think people should listen to what he says a little more than focusing on hair.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.

Being mainstream is fun.

Tyson Fury, he wants to be relevant. He wants to be in the scene. I like the guy too. I'm a big fan of him. I like how he is. I like his energy.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

Popularity has become its own justification.