Hype Quotes

I don’t really care about no hype.

I don’t think hype always works. It can get you initial audience, but eventually, it’s your story, and the characters need to hold audience’s attention.

Look, I’m going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I’ve been around for a while, and I’m not going to play into the hype that I’m some great, you know, discovery.

Sometimes there’s a reason for the hype.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I’d be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that’s the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I’ve always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

I am a pretty bad driver, so when I drive, I need to be calm. I can’t be vibing to DMX, all hype, in the car.

I don’t much believe in the hype of anything or anybody, not even myself.

I want to build up the most hype around my album. I wouldn’t just throw it away.

There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we’d wild out to, get arrested to.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.

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 business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

‘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.

People are brainwashed into believing that Italy is the seat of luxury manufacturing. If it’s made in Italy, it must be good. That’s just hype. Quality is where you bring it.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

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

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.

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

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 am used to the hype because I played in the NBA.

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.

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.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs.

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

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.

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

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

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.

I’ve personally been involved in movies where people on set were talking about awards for the movie, and I bought into the hype. And then the movie would come out, and not only was it not good, it was horrible.

I think the problem I have with films is that, because there’s so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they’ll take to heaven with them. You’ve got to realise that it’s not everything, making films.

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.

Apple’s iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple.

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that’s all music is.

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.

I just don’t believe the hype. I just don’t take myself too seriously. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

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

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.

You have lines of people outside Apple stores waiting for the latest iPhone, which adds to the hype around new product launch. So scarcity has value not just in its own right, but as a basis for free PR – it can become a story on the nightly news.

The Beat Generation – that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the ’70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the ’40s and ’50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation.

I’ve never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It’s just not my thing.

The hype, we try not to let it get to us.

I’m extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I’m working towards making it true.

When you’re involved in those big-budget movies, there’s a lot of hype: ‘Oh this is gonna be a big hit!’ And ‘A Christmas Story’ wasn’t. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop’s keyboard used to do.

You do have those guys that talk a lot. I understand they’re doing it for a reason, to hype a fight, but then you get guys who do it and you can tell that they’re trying too hard.

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.

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.

When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.

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.

I’d like to see technology to move beyond the hype and be considered part of infrastructure… the way you see access to water. I would like it to move away from apps and mobile money. So that everyone has their TV and their Wi-Fi, and it’s just ubiquitous. I think that’s where we should be headed.

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.

The pressure and hype is created by the media. Of course, expectations are there and we cannot stop that nor change yourself for expectations. We just continue making films.

I don’t really hype myself up with fancy things.

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 think it’s much harder now with the Internet to hone anything. It’s easy to share things: you do one track, and it goes on Hype Machine; people are being exposed a lot earlier.

A lot of the fans don’t necessarily get to see what I can do, because they’ve seen me as the hype girl for Cass & Enzo.

I’ve played at Rucker Park a couple of times. It’s cold blooded. It’s hype in there, real hype.

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn’t bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it’s fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you’re still there.

We’re making clothes – we aren’t saving the world. I’m not saying that designers aren’t artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it’s for people to wear. I think that the hype of fashion has come down a level.

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’m uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme… to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

It destroys the soul to hear that you’re all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

I don’t know what hype you’re talking about, I don’t pay attention to it.

I don’t like hype cluttering art.

I always kind of say to people, don’t believe the hype. You are never as good as what they say; you are never as bad, and remember that you do it just to make you happy and to enjoy it.

I don’t want to believe my own hype.

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

A lot of what people are calling ‘artificial intelligence’ is really data analytics – in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking ‘What is A.I., really?,’ don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Look, I’m going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I’ve been around for a while, and I’m not going to play into the hype that I’m some great, you know, discovery.

You know when there’s someone new on the rise and there’s too much hype? I didn’t want that to be me.

The only reason why I’m on Twitter is because Dixie Carter made me. I’ll go on Twitter every now and again and just say some things. Normally, it’s just to hype wrestling and to hype what’s coming on TV and whatnot.

I always liked making the ‘vibe music’ more ’cause I feel like you can get more creative on it. Memphis is for sure like the grimey. In my hype music, the Memphis comes out of me – but when I try to vibe, I feel the Caribbean culture come out.

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.

The fact that hype exists doesn’t prove that something is not important.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

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.

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.

Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It’s just been a huge hype over the last year when actually… there isn’t really that much value.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

I love being on Sky Sports, the big hype around the games and stuff like that.

Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union’s leader than he can disown his own id.

I know I have to live up to the hype wherever I go. If I’m an inch below the standard, it’ll be chaos.

I’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

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.

There’s the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there’s the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there’s that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.

We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game.

I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’

You never believe your own hype. As quick as somebody can be ‘the guy’ in Hollywood, he can be gone the next minute. For me, it’s about doing great work. And then hopefully you keep working forever.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what’s happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

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

I think towards the end of my career, I’m the man. But right now, I’ve still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I’m not going to believe the hype.

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

I live a very simple life. I live away from all the Hollywood hype, and I try to keep it that way.

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it – the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

I don’t think it’s healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it’s positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.

The world of campaign consulting is full of hype. It is designed to offer those desperate for an edge on their opponent the promise of a silver bullet and a consultancy willing to go to any lengths – including all those things you’d like to do but can’t – in order to win.

I kill hype for a living.

The more negative hype we get, the more records we sell, know what I’m saying?

I’m the hype guy, I’m the high-energy guy.

I have done over 50 years in politics and this trial by media is unacceptable to me. Anybody can take any stand, and then run editorials… The media creates a hype, the opposition starts shouting, I sack my ministers… how do I run my government?

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the ‘extended order’ of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

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.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we’ve already criticised ourselves.

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in ‘Twilight,’ put in my two weeks’ notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don’t care how much they say you’re great, don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.

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

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.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

As a player, NBA All-Star Weekend contains a lot of joy and a lot of excitement. Even with all the hype built into the game, it’s really a special honor to be selected among many great players.

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

I’d gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

I’m an exciting fighter and I always live up to the hype, unlike some other fighters who disappoint.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you’ll never build an enduring business.

The hype man’s job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

Music is a huge part of my life when I am on the road, working out, or preparing for a game. It is something I always go back to, and it is something that motivates me. It gets me hype before a game.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you’re this or you’re that or you’re too this.

I don’t know why people can’t believe that I can be mellow. In real life, I’m goofy around people I know but my music portrays me to be hype when most of the time, I’m actually mellow.

Ninja was able to survive its own hype and become a very strong label.

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

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.

Don’t accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn’t be beat, and I actually fell for it.

You become very known for being someone’s girlfriend, and all of a sudden there’s all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.