John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There's been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I'm not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I've sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now.

In the U.K., I came from a talent show. I was watched by millions of people, so instantly when I came out from the show, people knew who I was.

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

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.

The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

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

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

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

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.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.

I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

I don't get recognised that much in the street.

It's always a shock to me when I get recognized.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I get stopped all the time on the street. I can't believe how many people watch 'Dexter.'

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.