David Hasselhoff quotes:

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie,

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

I think people know that I've got a good heart.

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.

Come on, I'm a television star. Nobody on television is curing cancer. I've had a great ride, and I'm very honored to have been in this business. I'm happy if I managed to affect people in a positive way.

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

I've already lived the lives of ten people. My father's 87 and still going strong. I think there's a lovely angel watching over me.

Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.

That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

I've got taste, it's inbred in me.

I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.'

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.'

I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.

I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

I let people down easy with inspiration.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

Beyond its entertainment value, 'Baywatch' has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has had such a significance for so many.

I feel like Elvis. Only alive.

Failure usually works for me in the end.

And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away. But you got to. And, when you do, it changes your life.

I'm a cheesy over-the-top megalomaniac with a deep voice and the most amazing pecs.

I started training for musicals since I was a boy.

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

I embrace everything.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.