Kimberly Caldwell Quotes

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

Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

When I'm out and about, it's rare for me to be recognized. But for some reason, every now and then, someone will know who I am. It might be because my picture occasionally appeared in 'Weekly Jump.'

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. Norman Mailer and Vidal, the same thing. The bestselling writers now, there's no great animal energy with them.

I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

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

I'm always surprised when I get recognized.

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

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

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

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

I don't feel like I'm really in the public eye because I feel like I'm one of the public.

We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

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

I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.