Archibald Butt Quotes

A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

Roosevelt knew never to lose control of the majority of American opinion, unlike his greatest democratic contemporaries, Churchill and De Gaulle, who at times suffered spectacular rejections by their electorates.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

There is no better feeling than having the approval and adulation of your fellow human beings.

People all want to hug me. They want to touch The GC!

Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.