Quotes About Popularity

The whole New Kids thing was crazy. The more it grew, the more I just felt like I was trapped.

I felt trapped by my success.

People may trash me, but at least they're talking about me.

Public posturing notwithstanding, when trash becomes a hit no filmmaker worth his salt takes it seriously.

I still don't get stopped about anything else anywhere near as much as 'Skins.' The remarkable thing that I've noticed is how far that show has traveled: it's aired all over the world.

Anywhere in the world I have travelled to, people would tell me 'Yeh Vaada Raha' is one of their favourite songs. People would even convey the same on Insta and Twitter.

To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles.

I want a number one record, I want to be travelling the world, I want to be playing in front of thousands of people.

When Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner travels to China to play table tennis, he is mobbed when he leaves his hotel as if he were a rock star walking around Manhattan or a soccer star walking around Europe.

Everywhere I go, people embrace me and treat me like a national hero. The people in the streets are asking for the return of the military. They ask, 'When are you coming back?'

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

I love 'Gossip Girl' for so many reasons. The show is like candy: a delicious treat for fans.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think.

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

When I was super famous, there was definitely a distinction between how one was treated if they were on TV and how one was treated if they were on film. I don't know that that distinction exists as much now.

Bollywood is treating me well.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.

If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.