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" I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things. "

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" 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! "

" Robin Leach is a guy who, when he has the time, goes quietly to his house in Connecticut and sits looking into the fire with a good glass of red wine in his hand. And when I wake up in the morning, I wink at myself because I like me - I know who I am. "

" It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else. "

" In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. "

" Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. "

" 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'm a big baller. "

" I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. "

" I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans. "

" I've never shied away from hard work. "

" Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds. "

" I'm fast and loud on purpose. "

" 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. "

" I am the most unlikely star in the world. "

" 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. "

" Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring. "

" I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced. "

" It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. "