Top 101 Hype Quotes

You’re an island no matter what you do. I think it’s very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Maybe some people think that it’s all about the hype, about the fame, but it’s not. It’s all about being the best. It’s all about challenging myself everyday.

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive.

Even though I’m a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I’m looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

I don’t really care about no hype.

I think about the people that I’ve seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

I don’t want to believe my own hype.

You don’t really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

Don’t take social media seriously. Don’t buy into the hype.

I think there’s a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren’t great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don’t have great experiences.

What’s sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That’s the danger of celebrity.

I try to play ‘Maneater’ by Daryl Hall and John Oates at least once when I drive somewhere. It gets me so ‘hype,’ as the kids would say.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ‘ buzz ‘ about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

Sitcoms are bad in so many ways it’s hard to say why. They can hype things as much as they want, but it’s all crap, no matter how many TV Guide cover stories there are.

When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It’s all part of the media hype beforehand.

Designer labels, throughout the history of fashion, have maintained an air of exclusivity around themselves. Call it hype, criticize it if you will. But fashion has used this ‘exclusive’ tag to make itself coveted.

To be joining ‘The Hunger Games’ family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it’s well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn’t talk down to its audience. And then there’s the romance element.

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won’t miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the ‘Eventocracy.’ All this flashy ‘art-fair art’ and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

I really enjoyed reading ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves – such is the stuff of short-selling.

I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

I’ve always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype – that the music wins.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

You’re all right, as long as you don’t believe your own hype.

I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.

Full live performances are always my favorites, and I think a lot of people’s favorites too, just because you can feel the energy off the crowd and there’s so much more interaction, and just everything overall is just like very hype.

I don’t really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I’ve signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that’s written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

Sometimes it’s all about hype, and I didn’t want hype.

I think all the business stuff – the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles – is boring.

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we’re doing and try not to think about the madness that’s surrounding it, and all the hype.

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I’m so easily seduced by it.

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we’re hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

Monsters have always been built in this sport. I just don’t believe the hype. You’ve got to show me.

Always for me, when theres any leadup or hype or anticipation surrounding an event, such as the release of a show, it always gives me a bit of anxiety.

I don’t like hype cluttering art.

In my opinion, right now there’s way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

Let me tell you, seven days without Wolf Blitzer is heaven. A week outside ‘The Situation Room’ is downright calming. No ‘breaking news!’ No hype. Blitzer is a first-class journalist, and I mention him only by way of acknowledging his fame.

Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn’t deliver at all – it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

The DJs with a lot of hype are not necessarily the best DJs at creating a vibe.

The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you’re hyper, you try to slow it down; if you’re a bit low, you try to hype it up.

‘The Victorian Internet’ is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

You’re an island no matter what you do. I think it’s very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

I don’t get caught up in the hype, the so-called experts, the Internet; they’re not in there with us.

A brand can have huge hype but still only be a tiny business.

Those big films are scary things. There’s so much money behind those things. There’s that hype. You enter a machine.

I’m very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.

The hype around Ronda is incredible and it’s created this aura of invincibility. If you let that play with your mind, you’ll be beaten before the bell rings. She’s a great fighter, but I know I can beat her and I don’t let that aura of invincibility bother me.

You avoid the hype while you’re working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.

I remember when Joe Calzaghe fought Jeff Lacy, and there was all this hype about Lacy being some sort of unbeatable force, and Joe absolutely hammered him.

I’m a New Yorker, I say what’s on my mind, because not being that way, what’s the point of that? People may think this is hype, but you look back before at my other fights and you see that I don’t talk trash.

When I got into high school and I was rapping, it was the attention I was loving. It was so hype.