Chris March Quotes

I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

I think the rapid rate at which people started caring and paying attention, because it's just something that I don't think you can really prepare for - there's no textbook on it. Just the amount of interest that people have in me and Alice and the "Twilight" series and the rest of my cast.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No.

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you've done, but you feel as though you're being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you're being watched.

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.

Being interviewed is an odd experience for me because I was an actor a long time before anyone ever asked me a question about myself. When I started being interviewed, I definitely felt I was being asked to defend or explain myself.

I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to a bigger audience.

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.