Quotes from Robin Leach

I've never shied away from hard work.

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

I do get to meet a lot of people, and I do get to travel quite a bit. You may laugh, but it's a tough job.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Nothing gets my journalistic juices flowing more than a seaside chalet, the mention of a private jet, or room service in St. Tropez.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

The idea for 'Lifestyles' began to take shape in my mind as I became more and more frustrated with the type of celebrity interviews I was doing for television.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

I helped launch 'ET'... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.

There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

I am the most unlikely star in the world.

It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist!

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!