Top 177 Fan Base Quotes

Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the ‘cool thing.’

When I first toured North America, everyone was saying that it was working because there is such as a solid Korean fan base here. The truth is, that is less than five per cent of the audience, which is mixed of all backgrounds.

My fan base is in Malayalam cinema, and that’s where I want it to be.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I’ve been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I’m a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they’re really down for me. That’s how I got signed – 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross.

I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base – like San Antonio, Minneapolis – those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.

It’s such a passionate fan base in Arizona, and such a smart fan base.

I’ve always had an extremely passionate fan base.

I had only ever done films that never had this huge fan base. I acted just to act. And so, coming into ‘The Originals’ and ‘Legacies’ and that fandom for the first time, I didn’t know how to handle it at first, but I have a better grip on it now.

‘Teen Wolf’ has such a die-hard fan base, which we’re all so grateful for. It’s amazing to have that kind of support because, without the fans, we wouldn’t have this show.

Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father’s entire fan base liked me, and I can’t thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.

Any time you change something classic or iconic, you’re going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

The fan base and the passion of the fan base is a large part of the story of the show ‘Fringe.’

The Giants have a great organization, great fan base.

I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don’t do social media stuff – we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter.

I think it’s important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you’re liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It’s a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There’s nowhere that you’re supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

An influencer with a small but loyal and engaged following can often have a far greater impact than one with a much larger fan base.

The horror fan base is fantastic. It really has devoted fans, and I like that aspect of the genre. The people who are making it are always really wonderfully nerdy, creative people, which I always love.

You can’t sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Working on ‘Good Luck Charlie’ has been an awesome experience, and it’s so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.

As a singer-turned-actor, you will already have a fan base. However, if you don’t do well in the movies, your career in music is also at risk.

I don’t have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool – and have good taste, obviously.

When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis intact, because they wanted to keep alive a musical legacy. As a result, those artists were able to spend 30 to 40 years in the business and still make a living, still have a fan base.

The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

I always had a big fan base on the Internet, but it wasn’t as a rapper. It was just as, ‘Nahmir.’

I grew as an artist and a person. I’m just ready to work, get this money, get this new fan base and tour all over the world.

I think ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist literature had its fan base then, but TV has given it an enormous reach.

The really cool thing is that I’ve developed this hardcore fan base that came to me through my work in films, but they are super-willing to cross over and experiment.

I just want to be able to communicate with my fan base.

I’m the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

Even before the mainstream knew about P.O.D., we were going for several years underground. For me, those were the times where it really was about the music and really about the fan base.

When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn’t really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.

Newcastle has a massive fan base and a great history so it is amazing to be here.

I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too.

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don’t care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I’m trying to please are myself and my fans, because they’re the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

I don’t have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!

Artists know they need to have digital presences to build and bolster their fan base, and fans have exploited that fact.

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like ‘The Newsroom.’ I’ve always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I’ve gained such a loyal fan base.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you’re in danger of losing that fan base, because if you’re not interesting yourselves, you’re not interesting your audience.

What interested me in doing ‘Dragonball’ was that it’s a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it’s a great action movie!

The one thing I’ll never forget is the fan base. Without them, there would be no WWE. There would be no wrestling.

For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I’d been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They’re like, ‘I want to know everything! I want to know it all!’

I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

You have to understand, the Blazers and their fans had a unique relationship. I’m not sure there has ever been a love affair between an NBA team and its fan base like we had… We had good players and good citizens.

I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a ‘lil’ in front of his name, and that’s funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.

Kickstarter can get customers invested, both literally and figuratively, in a game before it is released. With nothing but an idea, a bit of video and a few screenshots, a developer can start building a loyal fan base.

I don’t like to talk about politics. If you say you’re a Democrat, that’ll turn off Republicans, and that’s half of your fan base.

One of the things I pride myself on is that my fan base is progressive, but I don’t shy away from people who think differently from me. I welcome productive conversations, but it’s important for me to not hide where I stand.

I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album, and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut.

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

What I have found is that my fan base will follow me to whatever I’m doing. They gave me a big tune-in for Hallmark. They were just happy to see me working again, and my job is not to disappoint them, not to cheat them.

There is a huge fan base; they’re very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished – before I started working on the series, I didn’t know anything about ‘Game of Thrones.’ I hadn’t heard of the books.

You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red – they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before.

When you’ve done it long enough – I’ve done something like 21 World Series – just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It’s the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.

I’m a big hit with guards at security. They’re the center of my fan base, the airport security guards.

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.

I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on ‘Darkest Before Dawn’ are uncompromised hip-hop and really speaking to my core fan base. Basically what’s been known in my discography the entire time.

In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there’s power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

With such a huge fan base, Indian football has a good foundation, and my aim is to become an ambassador of the sport and fly the flag on the international stage for the Indian fans.

This sounds weird, but when you have a male fan base, you pretty much know you are going to be okay until you’re an old, crispy dude, because they’re not buying your films because you’re sexy.

Traditionally, WWE used to shy away from that Internet kind of fan base. But I think increasingly, in life in general and every aspect of entertainment, social media, the Internet fan base is now massive.

These ‘Supernatural’ conventions are such a great time. The fan base is like none other, and I’m sure I’ll never experience a fan base that support is the same with – their kind of unbridled decency towards the actors makes me not have to worry about going into the crowd.

I actually started my YouTube channel by accident! I was growing a fan base without even knowing it, and it’s all in my book ‘Is You Okay?’

We didn’t really have a fan base to begin with. We kind of had one with ‘The Sing-Of,’ but it was relatively small.

I have a fan base. I’ve sold a million albums in country music. I’ve got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.

Hopefully my fan base doesn’t lock me into ‘Twilight,’ you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.

As far as Alistair goes, he’s got a great fan base, he’s a great name fighter, and I look forward to competing against him.

I’ve been talking about trying to do fantasy wrestling for years. It’s going to be really, really exciting as we build our fan base.

I keep growing my fan base. My last project ‘Heartless’ sold more mixtapes than some big artists on major label albums.

I’ve worked as a singer in metal bands for over ten years now, so I’ve definitely kind of put in my time building that underground family, that underground, loyal fan base.

When comics are in the room, people have a tendency to try to make them laugh. That doesn’t really make you funnier. It makes you a comic’s comic, but you aren’t going to get a fan base doing that.

I’m excited about becoming a transmedia storyteller. The idea that we can tell the ‘Agent Mom’ story online with MTV Comics and build a fan base that we can take over to Paramount to discuss turning that story it into a movie is just awesome.

I cultivated this fan base that I really didn’t really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren’t an underplay for me at the time. I’d never done a tour before!

It’s extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.

When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. If you look at any actor’s fan base in India, you will find that they are from different regions.

I’m excited to bring in a new fan base for ‘Charmed’ and to surprise and shock the old ones as well – bridge the gap between both. Maybe I’ll get some superpowers!

‘Coraline’ is Neil Gaiman’s book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.

We’ve got a younger fan base – and their parents. One day when we were at Abbey Road, an entire family was outside waiting for us – like, a nine-year-old, a 16-year-old, and their mother. They can agree on liking us for whatever reason. It’s kind of strange.

Bollywood gives you an immense reach. The stars have a huge fan base. The amount spent on promoting a film is incredible. To be part of such productions, in some way or the other, is a blessing for any artiste.

By delivering a wide array of programming to YouTube, the NBA will be able to connect with its existing worldwide fan base and reach a vast new audience that is passionate about basketball.

I do my music for the people, for the fan base, you know they’re the one’s that keep me going and keep me motivated with it.

I want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

I feel like it’s social media that’s opened that door. We’re able to accumulate and generate our own fan base. Once we do that and put our own work in, labels take notice that we have our own following.

The conversation of cultural appropriation versus appreciation is especially important for the NFL as it seeks to expand its fan base to London and all over the world.

‘The Host’ is very much in the same vein as ‘Twilight’, and there’s clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can’t imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I’m not sure I could handle that level of fame.

When ‘Family Guy’ came along, it was like a gift, and it expanded my fan base.

I’m building my fan base around the fact that here’s someone who does things a little differently, who brings other musical influences into country music, and you never really know what she’s going to do next.

I think we had kind of a die-hard fan base when it came out, but a lot of the people were angry with Motley for getting rid of Vince, or Vince leaving or whatever happened.

Longhorn football has been – and always will be – a national power, winning and playing for national championships with great pride and passion, supported by an unbelievable fan base.

My career choices aren’t based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.

The bigger fan base you have, the more companies will be attracted to you. And having a following, you can be so much more involved being a representative with the brand you’re working with.

I went to the darts, went to the football, had a little pint, no airs and graces. I think that’s why I had the fan base I had.

I do think that ‘Pretty Little Liars’ has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

I’ve always wanted to do some kind of merchandising/clothing line/action figures because I know the fan base that I have are very loyal and dedicated, and they’ve always loved the action figures and other merchandise.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

It’s not like I wakeup everyday and say, ‘You know what, I need to do a horror film.’ Statistically it’s only like forty percent of my output but it’s a great ride and the fan base is really dedicated and that’s always cool. When you’re lucky enough to be in a good one it’s fantastic.

I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I’m going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn’t necessarily cater to most of them.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that’s religious and they’re going to come see you when you’re in that town, once your radio success is gone and you’re not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

When I came up with KRS-One and Rakim, everybody had to step their lyrical game up to build a fan base.

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I’m still nowhere near that point. Because I didn’t have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

I am always really respectful of anything that has the kind of longevity and fan base that something like DC Comics has and ‘The Flash’ series in particular has.

I was so thrilled to be in ‘Doctor Who.’ It’s such a wonderful experience, and the fan base that that show has never fails to surprise me.

There are a lot of movies I’ve done that come and go, and don’t really establish a growing fan base.

Backstreet Boys have an international fan base, and fans love what we do. I didn’t want to be one of those artists that does something totally different so people would ask, ‘Why did he do that?’ Is he not proud?’

Being a part of the LGBTQ community myself, it’s another passion of mine to let my fan base know that I represent another demographic in the WWE.

I have a fan base who are collectors.

The love and pride that I feel from my Indian fan base make every new performance in India unique and special.

I don’t consider myself at the kind of stature of somebody who can play five cities on a tour, and that’s it. I go where I’m wanted, and I’ve always had the rural areas of the country. We’ve always gone there, since the Carolina Chocolate Drops. There’s a fan base that’s there, and if I can afford to do it, I do it.

But I also think it’s up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

I have got the most incredible fan base who pick me up and we do it for them. This is why we do what we do. They are our fans and they are the best.

As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.

I loved working on ‘90210,’ and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

My fan base just growing and growing. People know that I’m not just coming and going. They know that I’m here to stay.

There’s definitely a large fan base for the ‘Twilight’ and ‘Harry Potter’ movies that need their next fix.

There’s a very devoted fan base that really loved ‘T1’ and ‘T2’ and felt burned by ‘T3’ and ‘T4,’ so when we said, ‘We’re going to do it again!’ the reaction was, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa – what do you think you’re doing?’

It’s really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person and see the lengths that they’re willing to go to.

We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.

I’ve been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it’s incredible how big it’s gotten. People really enjoy these records.

I chose taking the hard road and creating my own niche and getting my own fan base.

A lot of brands just push messages out on social media, but that’s not what social is about. Social is about engaging. It’s about a conversation. It’s about listening and then responding. It’s an ongoing conversation with our fan base.

I’m always nervous! Especially when it comes to a series like ‘Disgaea’, where you do have such a devoted fan base, the last thing you want to do is disappoint. But I love playing bad guys and just always hope that fans will be forgiving if I miss the mark.

With my fan base, I’m just vulnerable. I’m very transparent and vulnerable.

The challenge at this point is helping a brand understand they’re not just commissioning a viral video but tapping into an existing fan base and an audience that’s very loyal… It’s two brands working together: the Rhett and Link brand and their brand.

I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.

I love the fact that ‘Total Divas’ reaches a different demographic than the normal fan base or audience that typically watches ‘WWE Monday Night Raw’ or ‘SmackDown.’

We played nightclubs for seven years solid before we got a record deal, and then ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and ‘Vulgar Display Of Power,’ we toured non-stop four years for those records, and we developed the most brutal, loyal fan base on the face of the earth.

An original album was always a goal for us, but I think we just wanted to garner a fan base and work up to it slowly, because it’s not an easy thing to tackle.

I have no regrets about buying Fulham. Absolutely not. This is a perfect club for what we wanted to do. It’s absolutely historic, small, and has just the perfect fan base.

If people are honest, they’ll admit that I do have a fan base.

It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.

The truth is, I mostly thought about ‘Accidental Racist’ in terms of my fans. This song was meant to generate discussion among the people who listen to my albums. What I was most worried about is that my fan base would think that I was preaching to them.

I do know it’s great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it… Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it’s not just one person’s fault.

I have a fan base that goes everywhere from 5 to – I don’t even know what age, but grown adults.

I’ve had a good-size fan base for a while.

I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that’s passion.

‘Gossip Girl’ was an adaptation that, although very different from a Marvel property, had a vocal fan base. On that show, we started off very nervous about making any changes from the book. As we got our sea legs underneath us, we became more bold.

I have a fan base eager for more stuff. That makes me more than happy. I know I have an army behind me.

It’s nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I’ve worked to build, brick by brick.

The entire existence of the NFL – and of football at any level, for all of that – rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.

I like a lot of the older country stuff. Shoot. We actually do really good in punk rock clubs. I don’t really know where our fan base lies.

The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don’t know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.

‘Wicked’ has such a wild fan base – like, a voracious fan base.

I started my career at ‘Star Trek,’ and that had a huge, very vocal fan base.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

Our feature film, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,’ has a built-in fan base from the original film.

I love connecting with the fan base and sharing my experiences.

It’s something we’re trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we’re trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I’ll take responsibility for.

Every 5, 7, 10 years you have a new fan base. You always have to be re-establishing your fan base. That means you got to have a diverse menu of talents that give you all kinds of things.

When you play for India and also start performing, your fan base increases, the media highlights your performances. You feel a sense of positivity with all the praise and adulation that comes your way.

What you have to understand is that the first day I picked up a bat I made an impression on my older sister Agnes and my dad. It was about seeing people satisfied by what you’re doing. I was creating a fan base.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

I came up in the ’80s and ’90s – there was no engagement with the fan base.

My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then ‘Twilight’ came along!

We know there is a very powerful fan base for Liverpool in Asia. We are not embarrassed to say we want to exploit that.

If I was just a country singer, I wouldn’t be near as cool and I wouldn’t have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.

That’s two different influences… The Warriors nation as a fan base, that’s a whole lot of pressure. Then you got the pressure of playing with some greats.

If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a partisan fan base – measured through social media – then you are an official opinionator, monetizable through books, television contracts and the speaking circuit.

Disney definitely sets up a fan base for you.

I didn’t know I had a fan base on the other side of the border. I thought that since actor Ali Zafar is from Pakistan, the fans might have mistaken me for him. Eventually, I realised that they have liked my work, and that feeling sunk in.

I think because of how big the women’s teams at Lyon and PSG are, the expectation on the team and the huge fan base – it leaves the door open for so much media. But I think that’s a good thing.

If you’re an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will continue growing, and that will power your entire career.

Partnering with MetroPCS is a great opportunity for me. It’s great to be partnered with a company that serves a consumer similar to the UFC and my fan base.

We knew we had a big fan base over there in the U.K. and we were excited to get over there.

‘Watchmen’ is like the music you feel is written just for you. ‘That’s my song, no one else gets that but me.’ That’s why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.

I thought the idea of ‘Smurfs’ lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the ‘Smurfs’ and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

I could always play the drums, so I have some musical talent, but I don’t live in Atlanta or LA, so I can’t just randomly bump into major artists. So instead, I started building my fan base and my name by networking through the internet. Mostly through Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Facebook.

Every time I fought at home, I gave my fans a knockout. I spoiled my fan base in Cincinnati.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It’s a way I communicate with my fan base.

You can’t really force kids to like music. I’m a firm believer in an organic fan base.