Mainstream Quotes · Page 16

I've always given this line: 'I don't want to be in the mainstream, I want the mainstream to come to me.' And…

— Peaches

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product…

— Roger Ebert

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general…

— Christopher Bollen

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

— Gerald Chertavian

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

— Haile Gerima

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the…

— Kieran Hebden

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a…

— Carmen Carrera

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been…

— William Gibson

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of…

— Aberjhani

Women's sport is embedded in the mainstream consciousness now, and that is a hugely positive thing. That's not to say that our…

— Toni Duggan

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17…

— Edward Snowden

I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way…

— Dana Goodyear

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to…

— Jonathan Kozol

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

— Michelle Shocked

I like mainstream cinema. I like films that are definitely commercial. I try and stick to that as much as possible.

— Catherine Tresa

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

— Michel Chossudovsky

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences…

— Bryan Fuller

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes…

— Kat Graham

“Mainstream features can turn into ventures when you fender their venders and set off their censors.”

— Calvin W. Allison

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

— Russell Simmons

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

— Leah LaBelle

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

— John Mulaney

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even…

— Paul Beatty

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They…

— David Icke

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are…

— Sophie

We don't really want to be the 'Late Night' of the Internet. We want to have one foot in the mainstream, one…

— Sean Evans

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the…

— Mara Wilson

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz…

— Sasha Frere-Jones

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

— Dirk Benedict

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes…

— Sadat X

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

— Walter Annenberg

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the…

— Robert Glasper

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I…

— Takafumi Horie

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that…

— Alexander Siddig

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Mainstream or budget films don't matter to me. What matters is the script, the director and the part, not necessarily in that…

— Ranvir Shorey