Lester Holt Quotes

I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I guess my voice is more recognizable than I know!

I'm fully aware of people's perception of me, so when I start taking myself too seriously, I have to remember that, to them, I'm just the guy from 'Police Academy.'

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's worth sitting through the sex and violence because the narrative is so great.'

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

I'm the daughter of the media.

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

Remembering who I am is a really active task for me. And I often have to tell myself, 'You're a graduate student,' 'You're a daughter,' et cetera, in situations where I'm supposed to behave like one.

I find it hard to believe when people tell me I inspired them in any kind of way because I think to myself, 'well, why?' It's just me - not Madonna.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

I know what I've done, and I know who I am.