Doc Severinsen Quotes

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.

People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week.

It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

Colombians don't switch on their TVs to see me, but what I'm wearing.

I am more popular than many politicians, and even superstars like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.

To me, success is how recognisable your face is as an actress or a brand.

As is the case with politicians, actors are chosen by people.

You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.

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

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

When it comes to the fame side of things. I don't think anybody, whether they're famous or not, could claim to understand that phenomenon or have any sort of power over it.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

It's just really cool to see high profile trainers, athletes, and celebs using my products and loving them.

I'm not trying to walk away from responsibility or anything like that, but I think there's a bunch of people on TV who get trust simply for being on TV.

Donald Trump was really cool. I think a lot of people don't understand him. He brings so much media attention to anything he does. He's a proven success. I think people should listen to what he says a little more than focusing on hair.

Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I personally don't think too much about it.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.