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.

Grammer distinguishes between professional accomplishment and public celebrity: he first pursued acting as a craft, achieved success within that craft, and only later became widely “famous” through television’s mass reach. The quote suggests that modern fame is less a byproduct of excellence than a media effect—television turns performers into household names and, by saturating culture with visible “famous people,” helps create the broader social appetite to be known. Implicitly, he critiques fame as an external, technologically amplified phenomenon rather than an intrinsic marker of merit, and he frames the desire for fame as culturally conditioned by broadcast media.