Iggy Pop Quotes

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.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

I'm not trying to become popular.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

Being cool is not exactly at the top of my list.

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.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.

Popularity has become its own justification.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

People's opinions outside of my direct group of friends means next to nothing.

I've never been cool.

I mean, I definitely relate to not being a part of the popular crowd.

Everyone is friends with each other, and you have to like what's hot. You have to do all these things as if there's no real feelings. As if you can't dislike something any more. We all just have to be buddy-buddy.