Mort Walker Quotes

The public always picks quality.

If the public likes you, you're good.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

Get them to sing your song, and then they will know who you are.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.

It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

My reputation precedes me now.

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be selling out arenas than selling out of my trunk on the corner of my block.

I love when people know me from things other than Dream Theater.

I have to maintain my stardom.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

I will only do something if it has credibility for me, and that includes the films I make, the TV shows I judge and ad-campaigns I sign up for.

Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.