Quotes About Fame

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

For the first three months of 'Big Brother' I was a terrible TV presenter. But everyone was talking about the teeth. By the time they'd stopped talking about the teeth I was good at my job.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

I don't care about being on television.

I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

I look at television as a giant commercial for promoting this mission that I'm on. It's the best way for me to show that girls can be anything they set their minds to. I don't do it for the fame, and I most certainly don't do it for the money. It's sad that a lot of people want to get into television specifically for that reason.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

'High Maintenance' became my calling card for the bulk of my television career.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

Isn't television glamourous?

People around the world get to get a sense of who you are through reality television. They are so engaged with you that if they love you, they will support you for life.

You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I was always behind my stove.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.