Kevin Whately Quotes

When I'm in New York and L.A., I get recognized a lot more.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

I often get recognized on the street.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

I can't go anywhere without being recognized.

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.'

I have been famous for a long time.

I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I've done, and that's a great conversation to have. That's what we're doing it for.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

I may have a very visible job that allows more than a million viewers to invite me and my fellow anchors into their homes every morning, but that doesn't make me famous, nor does my job entitle me to any kind of special privileges.

It's got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.

It's good to be well known. Everywhere I go it's the same thing - autographs, pictures.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I don't know how people recognize me.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.