Quotes from David Hasselhoff

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.'

When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience. I like to be on stage; I feel safer on stage because I'm in control.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.

I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

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

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

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

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

I think people know that I've got a good heart.

I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

Come on, I'm a television star. Nobody on television is curing cancer. I've had a great ride, and I'm very honored to have been in this business. I'm happy if I managed to affect people in a positive way.

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.

I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.