Ben Barnes Quotes

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

I'm not trying to become popular.

Popularity is totally overrated.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.

Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Quest for popularity is probably a disqualification for greatness.

If you decide to go clubbing on a Friday night, and you're home before two A.M., you're not a man's man.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.