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

- Debby Ryan

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.

- Jane Goodall

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

- Holly Johnson

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.

- Garrett Hedlund

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.

- Freddie Mercury

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

- Eleanor Tomlinson

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

- Emily Blunt

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.

- Dick Schaap

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

- Dhani Harrison

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

- Debby Ryan

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

- Aslaug Magnusdottir

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

- Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.

- Chet Faker

There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.

- Craig Venter

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.

- Craig Venter

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.

- Conor McGregor

I don't want to believe my own hype.

- Christina Aguilera

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

- Benmont Tench

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

- Britt Robertson

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.

- Ashley Greene