Quotes About Fame

There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they're going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.

I get marriage proposals, maybe one a week. Women do flirt, yes. They just want someone from the telly. They come and talk to you, and I guess baking is more attractive, and so they feel they have something in common with me. But I'm just a man from Liverpool. I enjoy what I do, and if that gets people baking, then even better.

I don't think I'd want to be a comedian today if I saw it on the telly. I wouldn't think it was a thing for weirdoes and drop-outs; I'd think it was a thing for squares who wanted to be famous.

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.

Whether it is fame, love or respect, the Telly world has given me everything that I craved for.

In my group of friends it's not really a big deal that I'm on telly. They're all much more famous than me.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It's a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There's something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.

I can go into New York and sell out a theatre, but I didn't have to fight my way to get there: I was already a made man from television. I sold out a theatre in London without any TV exposure, just word of mouth and being a good comic, and that was a much bigger sense of accomplishment than just being a guy from telly.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

I never really wanted to be on telly.

I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.

You can't have it all one way - be on the telly and the radio and make lots of money - and not offer anything to your followers when they need you.

Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.