Talk Shows Quotes - Page 3

• I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!

  Howard Stringer

  Thinking, Cnn, Frustrated

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• The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Real, Hair, Issues

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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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• If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.

  Bryan Fischer

  Thinking, Korea, America

  "Radio's Bryan Fischer Tries Pushing Romney Right". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 14, 2012.

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• My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Swings, Politics

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• Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Want, Rope

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• I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

  Devon Sawa

  Fidgeting, Nervous, Get Real

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, San Francisco, Long

  "My Ellen Visit, Deferred" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.

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

  Amanda Lear

  Bed, Individualism, Shows

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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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• I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Country, Talking, People

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• It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

  Ben Stiller

  Real, Humorous, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just like working. I'm not good with downtime. I need to be doing something. I'm a music person, so I'll always have that going ... whether or not I'm getting paid for it . It was different to go into talk shows and performances by myself.

  Megan Hilty

  Different, Needs, Downtime

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.

  Andy Cohen

  Dream, Kids, Eye

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• I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

  Dick Cavett

  Book, Thinking, Records

  "Big Think" Interview, bigthink.com. February 2, 2010.

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• I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

  Andy Milonakis

  Night, Watches, Tvs

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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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• Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

  Betty White

  Long Ago, Years, Half

  "Betty White Still A Hit, With Ever-Younger Fans". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 8, 2011.

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• I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

  Mike Wallace

  Years, Games, Acting

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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• In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Night, Years

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.185, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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