Dave Attell Quotes

I haven't done 'Celebrity Poker Showdown,' and I would love them to have me, but I think I'm not a big enough celebrity yet to get on there.

My dream was to be a celebrity, to be on TV like Bob Hope was.

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

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

'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

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

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

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

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

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

You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.