Kelsey Grammer Quotes

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

I got a lot of incredible experience at 'Friends.' I was there when it was the No. 1 show in the country. And I was a very small part of that.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

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