Bill Maher Quotes

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

I would like to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' because I want to be a star.

When television became popular, reality shows started coming up and with such reality shows, people got a platform to show their talent.

I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.