I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.
Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.
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.
I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.
Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.
I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.
The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.
I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.
People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
No opposing quotes found.