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I've always been a gypsy.
I'm fast and loud on purpose.
I am the most unlikely star in the world.
I've made it a habit not to burn any bridges.
Florida is nice, but Texas is my favorite state.
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.
Nothing looks as great on videotape as Hollywood after a rain.
Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.
There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring.
Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.
I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.
I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.
I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.
I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.
I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.
It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist!
I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.
I helped launch 'ET'... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.
Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.
I like to say that it never rains on 'Lifestyles.' There is no bad news. It's a very up show.
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.
The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.
I do get to meet a lot of people, and I do get to travel quite a bit. You may laugh, but it's a tough job.
You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.
The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system.
I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
Nothing gets my journalistic juices flowing more than a seaside chalet, the mention of a private jet, or room service in St. Tropez.
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.
I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery.
There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.
The idea for 'Lifestyles' began to take shape in my mind as I became more and more frustrated with the type of celebrity interviews I was doing for television.
People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.
If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.
There are few celebrities that I don't know personally. And compared to the rich, most of the famous live in the poorhouse. It's much better to be rich than famous.
The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.
If we can make America great again and if we can get everybody working and bettering their lot in life, then this becomes the great country that it once was, that it's ceased to be.
There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to me that that is what people want to know about.
I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!
I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.
I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.
I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.
People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.
Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.
Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here.
Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.
When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.