Roy Clark Quotes

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.

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

While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

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.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

After appearing for eight seasons as a beloved character on 'Supernatural,' it's not surprising that I get most of my recognition on the street from that, and it happens with some frequency. But I'm not a guy who gets recognized often.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

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?'

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

The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

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's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

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.

Most people don't know who I am in the industry. I'm far from 'Conan' and 'Game of Thrones.'

You have a shelf-life on TV.

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phenomenon of what was going on in food television, what you started with the Food Network.

I'm not a celebrity chef. I'm a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.

People get to know you better on the small screen, be it while judging or hosting a show.

I've never been overexposed or in people's faces, although there are some who argue that in the late '70s and early '80s, I was played a lot!

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