Gail Kim Quotes

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

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

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

My fame is due to broadcast television.

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?

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

I work for ABC television; I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazine' and on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' five times.

I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows.

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

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

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

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 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.

A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.

I was discovered at 16, so all I've done is be a communicator and an entertainer all my life, and my energy is who I am in real life.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a constant topic for national television and radio shows - never mind mentioned by some of the country's most respected journalists.

There've been a lot of TV programs on me in Russia.

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

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.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

Being on TV is kind of the best job in the world.

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