Pop Culture Quotes

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

I'm forever a part of pop culture.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.

I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.

I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.

I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.