Andy Dalton Quotes

The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence.

I don't want followers.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

I want to reach as many people as I can.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

Fame can amplify the message of art in a remarkable, meaningful way.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I used to hear people say nobody can prepare you for fame, and it's actually very true. But there is such beauty that comes with it when you're able to use your platform in a positive way.

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

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

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Influence is the new power - if you have influence, you can create a brand.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.

It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.

I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there's an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.

Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.