John Updike Quotes

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

I don't care about being on television.

I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

I've been on reality TV since I was 23.

It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

I don't think I'll always be on television.

I don't want to be a reality TV star - that's not for me.

There are two things that you never turn down: Sex and an invitation to appear on television.

I'm obviously more known for being on television, and that's where most people see me.

I'm doing my sit-ups and watching CNBC. Suddenly, somebody starts talking about me on television... The business has gone into a weird zone of visibility. For those of us who have done it for a long time, it's strange.

I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved.

It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.

If you want to be really famous you have to go on TV every day.

People get to know you better on the small screen, be it while judging or hosting a show.

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.