Poonam Dhillon Quotes

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.

Working in TV, we're in people's living rooms, and everyone has a different relationship to it than with movies. You're there every week; they feel like they know you. They call you by name, and it trips you up.

People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week.

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

I'm not under any illusion that I'm an A-lister; I don't think I'm even on the alphabet scale. But I'm in people's houses every day - I'm there when they wake up and there when they go to bed. So people think they know who I am. And, to a certain extent, they do.

I'm just happy that a couple folks still know my name, and that I'm still able to sell out venues when I perform live.

I can't walk through the airport without grandmothers and daughters and little kids saying, 'I watch you on Celebrity Apprentice.' That's a good feeling.

I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.

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.

Broadcasting keeps you relevant.

It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.

To go from not being recognised at all to literally, the next day, having people stop you in the street was very, very weird. I had to buy myself a great baseball cap.

We live in a society that has ever-changing values and ever-changing standards and ever-changing criteria to determine who is a superstar or not. If you want to be a superstar, if you want to main event, if you want to profit in the entertainment business, you have to go with those trends and spearhead new trends.

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

Ever since 'Bigg Boss' happened, a lot of entertainment and movie offers poured in.