Kelsey Grammer

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, no calamities, no children that have to be attended to.

I'm someone who likes to try new things and take on new challenges. I love making movies, but TV is also great. I really enjoy doing both.

I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'

I don't tend to warm too well to people that tell me how I'm supposed to think. So, my life in Hollywood - I'm afraid I was destined to be a Republican.

As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.

For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

Life is supposed to get tough.