George Wendt Quotes

A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.

'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I would say the Go-Go's are pretty iconic but don't know if I'd refer to myself like that.

I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I've kind of been in a video game, I've kind of been an action figure. It was actually a Barbie doll, so that's why I say kind of, but if I can get made fun of on 'South Park' or 'Family Guy,' then I'll know that I've done something good with my life.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

By now, people should know who I am. I have established myself as Rich the Kid, so people respect me.

I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

People will send me pictures of T-shirts with my face on it and it's nothing that I ever would've imagined in a million years as a kid.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

It must be strange for any celebrity to come face to face with an impersonator. When you're that much of a personal icon and reference point that people impersonate you, it's gotta be a little weird.

I am the original item girl and will always be so.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.