“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.” ThinkingWantDoneShowsNextUncomfortableHostTalk Shows Author:Dave Navarro
“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.” Has BeensRealShowsSocialIssuesHairGenreDeclineSocial IssuesJerryMetamorphosisTalk Shows Author:Cristina Saralegui
“I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.” I CanShowsNervousGet RealTalk ShowsFidgeting Author:Devon Sawa
“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!” ThinkingWellsShowsNewsCrisisExpertsExceptionFrustratedCablesGet RealCnnTalk Shows Author:Howard Stringer
“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.” IfsThinkingShowsAmericaRealizingDoubtMiddleRepublicanRaisesConservativeRadioLike MeChineseHostKoreaRomneyPutinNorth KoreaIntimidatedTalk ShowsMiddle America Author:Bryan Fischer
“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.” WantShowsRealityStarsNot SureTalk Shows Author:NeNe Leakes
“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.” IfsKnowsShowsNightWatchesTvsInternetLateTalk ShowsLate Night Author:Andy Milonakis
“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.” IfsThinkingBookShowsDiesRecordsYeahCategoriesHostGuestsTalk Shows Author:Dick Cavett
“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.” MenShouldStoriesShowsDreamEyeKidsWantedCultureTvsGoes OnGayAdultsPopsHostDreams Come TruePop CultureHousewifeTrue StoryTalk ShowsWinding Up Author:Andy Cohen
“Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.” WorldShowsJobsKeysSellingEmploymentBrandsInstantOne TimeProvidingScentTalk ShowsPhoto Shoots Author:Peter York
“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.” NeedsPersonsDifferentShowsPerformancesPaidTalk ShowsDowntime Author:Megan Hilty
“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.” PeopleRealShowsHumorousBurdenExpectedTalk Shows Author:Ben Stiller
“What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.” LooksSaidImportantShowsAgeLastsLanguageWrittenEssenceProseTalk Shows Author:Peter Brodie
“I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.” EndsShowsAmericaAustraliaTalk Shows Author:Sophie Monk
“It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.” StillsImportantDoneShowsNextEnergyRoomsTalkingAudienceSittingGuestsTalk ShowsExchanging Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“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? So that is my goal next year - to really dissect the budget.” KnowsYearsSaidShowsEyeNextGoalModelsBudgetsEpisodesBlankEmbarrassedTypicalBusinessmanNext YearTalk Shows Author:Tyra Banks
“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.” WellsStatesDoneShowsFoundOpportunityGivenUnitedUnited StatesHostNelsonTalk ShowsPatronKissinger Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.” ShowsLastsHappinessNextHousePracticeCarDirectDespiteMessCoachingHostPromotionTherapistsTalk ShowsSearching For HappinessStinky Book:Stumbling on Happiness Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.” StoriesShowsProblemTelevisionScientistNewspapersMagazinesExcitementGossipOld FashionedControversyExtinctionOccasionalColumnsContributingEditorialsTalk ShowsGeneral PublicStatisticianPaleontologyMagazine CoversMaelstrom Author:David M. Raup
“If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.” IfsKindShowsMonthsGuestsTalk Shows Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“Mayor de Blasio wants to eliminate garbage. He believes New York City produces way too much garbage. Well, heck, forget about producing too much garbage. What about late-night talk shows?” WayWantBelieveWellsShowsNightForgetCitiesToo MuchNew YorkProduceLateNew York CityGarbageMayorsTalk ShowsLate Night Author:David Letterman
“A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of late-night talk shows. And California passed Proposition 21. That would change guacamole officially to guac.” ShowsNightNumbersCitiesIssuesNew YorkLateCaliforniaNew York CityPropositionsCeilingsBallotsTalk ShowsLate NightGuacamole Author:David Letterman
“I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.” LooksShowsTalk ShowsCringe Author:Mindy Kaling
“I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.” KnowsWantLooksDifferentShowsKidsAnimalTalkingKnow HowDadWho I AmTalk Shows Author:Michael Rapaport
“On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.” ThinkingMayShowsAttitudeTelevisionFinishedJournalismJournalistTalk Shows Author:Ellen Goodman
“Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.” ShowsTodayFallCultureYesterdayTabooUnspeakableTalk Shows Author:Ellen Goodman