Quotes About Popularity

I've got a group chat with my friends, and they were telling me I was blowing up on Twitter. I don't really look into those things, though.

Just being famous feels cheap to me.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

To see fans cheering your name, that's shocking. I'm like, 'Wait, how do you know who I am?'

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

Dweebs are the new chic.

With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.

I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

As is the case with politicians, actors are chosen by people.

I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

I get free meals in Cincinnati restaurants, girls scream when I just walk into a room.

I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

When we started 'Arrow,' there weren't really a lot of superhero shows in general. And it was a burden on us because it was, 'Are you going to fail or succeed?' And now they're everywhere.

How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.

I'm never quite cool, if you know what I mean. I'm basically the worst, best superhero.

Black Panther is a cool superhero and all, but let's be honest: He doesn't quite have the legs to prop up a blockbuster on his own.

With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency.

I've been going to 'Supernatural' conventions, so they tend to be big 'Lost' fans and big 'Supernatural' fans, but it's usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into 'Lost.' But on the conventions circuit, it's Lucifer.