Gerard Way Quotes

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

What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

The higher your profile, the more people want you.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.