Talk Shows Quotes

• I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Dance, Witty

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• There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Comedian, Television, Worship

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• The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

  Carl Bernstein

  News, Agendas, Mainstream

  "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.

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• I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.

  NeNe Leakes

  Stars, Reality, Want

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• My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

  Dick Cavett

  Dream, Night, Guests

  "Former Talk Show Host Dick Cavett Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 5, 2012.

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• Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

  Charlie Day

  Worry, Goes On, Comedic

  "'Horrible Bosses' Charlie Day: 5 Things You Didn't Know" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2011.

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• I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Giving, Sound, Host

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• I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

  NeNe Leakes

  Successful, Reality, Guests

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• Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

  Tyra Banks

  Firsts, Shows, Journalist

  "Tyra Banks: Success as Fashion Model and Businesswoman Make Her a Role Model as Well". Jet Magazine (p. 63), October 2006.

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

  Steve Harvey

  Creativity, Feuds, Guests

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• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Work Out, Acting, Shows

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• I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, People, Example

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• I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

  Dave Navarro

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

  Emma Roberts

  Mean, Thinking, Host

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• I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

  Michael Phelps

  Hero, Night, Late

  "Olympic Lessons for Startup Life" by John Greathouse, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

  Dave Eggers

  Strong, Stars, Oddities

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

  Amanda Lear

  Bed, Individualism, Shows

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• From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

  Tyra Banks

  Top Model, Moments, Walks

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• I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Thinking, Interviews, Shows

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• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  Wayne Brady

  Morning, People, Dancing

  "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2003.

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

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• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Feet, Two

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