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  • You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. -- Dan Abrams
  • I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. -- David Letterman
  • Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one. -- Craig Ferguson
  • I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. -- John Mayer
  • If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman. -- G. Gordon Liddy
  • There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? -- Queen Latifah
  • I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing. -- Bill Hader
  • Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known. -- Jon Katz
  • I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show. -- Tyra Banks
  • 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
  • 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
  • Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.' -- Tim Walberg
  • I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that? -- Tyra Banks
  • Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up. -- Tom Colicchio
  • I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.' -- Dick Cavett
  • 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
  • I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway. -- Marlee Matlin
  • I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself. -- Jane Pauley
  • Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go 'Oh my God you're bigger than the hulk on TV' so they started calling me Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder. -- Hulk Hogan
  • Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds
  • My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy. -- Amanda Lear
  • It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show. -- George Kotsiopoulos
  • I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences. -- Mindy Kaling
  • Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host. -- Ross Mathews
  • I only do a show when there's somebody I want to talk to. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it. -- Joel Osteen
  • I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal. -- Dan Abrams
  • I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe. -- Joy Behar
  • If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. -- Rachael Leigh Cook
  • I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV. -- Ani DiFranco
  • One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls. -- Joshua Morrow
  • I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show. -- Tyra Banks
  • I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested. -- Genevieve Gorder
  • My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny. -- Danny Masterson
  • I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role. -- Jerry Springer
  • When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains. -- Rachel Roy
  • I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work. -- Paul Reubens
  • We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. -- Johann Lamont
  • The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now -- Ethel Merman
  • You should really get some quotes about our show. Noah loves when people talk about him. Negatively or positively. -- Joe Mande
  • Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show. -- Guy Maddin
  • People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
  • It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. -- Dennis Prager
  • I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure. -- Isaac Mizrahi
  • You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap. -- Norm MacDonald
  • A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books. -- Dick Cavett
  • After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me. -- Darynda Jones
  • It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. -- Jim Bakker
  • David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk. -- George Lopez
  • I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show. -- Sophie Monk
  • We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it. -- Marc Jacobs
  • As far as in my career, I don't know what other form there is. I would love to do a talk show. -- Jay Mohr
  • I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show. -- Greg Behrendt
  • If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. -- Craig Ferguson
  • I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie. -- Jack Black
  • To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job. -- Ann Coulter
  • The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it. -- Dale Carnegie
  • Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something. -- David Allen
  • If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work. -- Anupam Kher
  • 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
  • If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests. -- Whoopi Goldberg
  • I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy. -- Marc Cherry
  • Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up. -- David Chase
  • Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts. -- Craig Ferguson
  • Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off -- Dylan Moran
  • If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character. -- Stephen Colbert
  • The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it. -- Dan Harmon
  • We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. -- Casey Kasem
  • 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
  • Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son. -- Julian Lennon
  • When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them. -- Adam Sandler
  • I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film. -- John Orloff
  • I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying. -- Ron Pope
  • The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones -- Jeaniene Frost
  • I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight. -- Doug Stanhope
  • Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people. -- Keke Palmer
  • Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do. -- Michael Ian Black
  • Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective. -- Larry Bird
  • I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show. -- Ellie Kemper
  • How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk? -- Gary Smalley
  • Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time. -- Lily Collins
  • My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy. -- Steve Wilkos
  • Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees? -- Ani DiFranco
  • For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them "¦ -- Morrie Schwartz
  • I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands. -- Nina Hagen
  • I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all. -- Jacob Artist
  • I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you. -- Andy Richter
  • There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation. -- Larry David
  • If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it. -- Richard Dawkins
  • My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show. -- Garry Shandling
  • I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.' -- Bryce Harper
  • Zanpano~: What are your buddies in central Scheming?!Mini-Enzy: SNUB I don't know...Zanpano: *Shaking jar Violently* TALK YOU INSECT SCUM!! TALK!!Frog man: YOU GO, ZANPANO! SHOW IT WHOSE BOSS! -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • 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
  • I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics. -- Jonathan Krohn
  • People always ask you, 'What's your dream job?' This is my dream job. It really is a dream opportunity to have your own nationwide daily sports talk show for an hour. -- Adam Schein
  • Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet. -- Henry Rollins
  • I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show. -- John Corbett
  • 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
  • I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite. -- Tyra Banks
  • I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night. -- Larry King
  • I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did. -- Anupam Kher
  • If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.' -- Aaron Sanchez
  • When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot. -- Justin Guarini
  • I've been doing a late-night talk show out here in New Mexico now, 'The After After Party.' We're going to finalize a deal to be in 50 million homes. How blessed can I be, man? -- Steven Michael Quezada
  • Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels! -- Dick Cavett
  • I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts. -- Anna Quindlen
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