Paul Michael Glaser Quotes

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

I can't stand the need to be fashionable.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Popularity has become its own justification.

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.