Nate Silver Quotes

My teachers used to tell me all the time, 'One day you're going to be famous. Make sure you come back; don't forget about me when you make it.' People would tell me - like, teachers with their masters' degrees.

I never thought people would be remotely interested in my silly little life, but I'm really glad that they are.

I'm waiting for the Times Square characters to start dressing as me.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.

I did not expect to become a celebrity or be known by the public at all.

I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, 'Hey, Tan!' I turn around thinking, 'Do I know you?'

I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.

It's crazy. Even doing that one episode of 'Catfish,' I get people recognizing me for it who didn't even know my music.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

I was really young when I signed with Spinnin' Records, and the huge success of 'Animals' hit me by surprise. I didn't expect my life to turn like that at all. But it was a very welcome surprise, to say the least!

We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.

I got recognized more by little sweet Italian fans in six days than I've ever been recognized in L.A. in six years.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I never planned to be on TV.

In 2007, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I got a call from Prince, and he had been watching my YouTube videos. It was crazy, because I thought it was my friend calling and pretending to be Prince.

From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.

Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.

Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is a bit much. I don't know how well I dealt with it.

It was very hard when the newspapers were chasing me. It was also very weird. I know I'd just become world champion but shouldn't they be following someone who has done something wrong?

I seem to be like a hero to people, it's crazy.

It amazes me. I'm just a fat, middle-aged, bald guy, but people still want to meet me.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.