Top 40 David Hasselhoff Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you don’t respect me you’re not gonna get that respect back.”

— David Hasselhoff

2. “I embrace everything.”

— David Hasselhoff

3. “If you stand still long enough, you’ll get stuck.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

5. “I let people down easy with inspiration.”

— David Hasselhoff

6. “I’m a cheesy over-the-top megalomaniac with a deep voice and the most amazing pecs.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

8. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

9. “Failure usually works for me in the end.”

— David Hasselhoff

10. “The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.”

— David Hasselhoff

11. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

12. “I’ve got taste, it’s inbred in me.”

— David Hasselhoff

13. “If you’re not in the game, you can’t hit a home run.”

— David Hasselhoff

14. “In case you haven’t caught the commercials, I’m in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.”

— David Hasselhoff

15. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

16. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

17. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

18. “I feel like Elvis. Only alive.”

— David Hasselhoff

19. “Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff – and it’s out of respect.”

— David Hasselhoff

20. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

21. “I’m six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!”

— David Hasselhoff

22. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

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23. “Over in the UK and in Wales, it’s nice to turn on the TV and see ‘Baywatch.’”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

25. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

26. “Image is what people perceive my life to be. It’s nothing like the truth.”

— David Hasselhoff

27. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

29. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

31. “I think people know that I’ve got a good heart.”

— David Hasselhoff

32. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

34. “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.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

36. “I started training for musicals since I was a boy.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

38. “I once didn’t work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.”

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

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

— David Hasselhoff

42. “Before long, I’ll have my own channel – I’ll be like Barney.”

— David Hasselhoff