Quotes About Talk Show

#1. If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Michael Schenker

#2. It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

Andrew Dost

#3. 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

#4. I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.

Norm MacDonald

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Michael Rapaport

#7. I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

Scott Aukerman

#8. 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

#9. VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.

Eddie Trunk

#10. 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

#11. Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.

Tyra Banks

#12. 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

#13. There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

Nawal El Saadawi

#14. 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

#15. By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

Kellan Lutz

#16. 'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.

Donny Osmond

#17. I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

John Mayer

#18. It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.

George Kotsiopoulos

#19. As long as they want me modeling, I'll be here. But I hope to maybe have a cooking show one day or host a talk show when I'm older and have a developed brand. That would be really fun.

Gigi Hadid

#20. I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.

Doug Stanhope

#21. You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.

Norm MacDonald

#22. Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.

Jimmy Carter

#23. I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It has taken off. We are the number one show in England on E! Who knew?

Joan Rivers

#24. To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

Monica Cruz

#25. And there you are. And I liked you a lot today. A lot. And I want to talk to you. Selfishly.

Anne Sexton

#26. It's interesting because a lot of people that stop me on the street now, and they talk about 'The Wire,' and they all have the same question: 'How come they took that show off the air?'

Seth Gilliam

#27. How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?

Margo Lanagan

#28. Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

David Ulevitch

#29. I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

John Stamos

#30. 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

#31. Many times we talk about the people that have come to enjoy the show. They went through a lot to get here, whatever they needed to work out in their lives; they got babysitters, they traveled, and purchased the tickets. So it's up to us to deliver the goods!

John Petrucci

#32. 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.

#33. I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Isaac Mizrahi

#34. So 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

#35. Being an Olympic Medalist was a team effort. So I am honored to be a part of CBS Sports' WE NEED TO TALK cast of iconic women. Being part of a show with some of my broadcasting and sports idols is an honor.

Dara Torres

#36. It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

Lee Thompson Young

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.

Susan Cain

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

Michael Patrick King

#43. One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

Joshua Morrow

#44. At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Kendrick Lamar

#45. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come back.

Gayle Forman

#46. In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.

Gloria Steinem

#47. Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.

Ray Lewis

#48. I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like a saxophonist's instrument is his saxophone, plus also his voice, if he's the one between tunes that makes announcements.

Emo Philips

#49. When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.

Anthony Browne

#50. I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

Mo'Nique

#51. 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

#52. All this talk about "finding yourself"; often, other people show you yourself first.

Harriet Lane

#53. I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

Erica Durance

#54. I don't see why anyone should put me down for my job. I'm bright. I'm intelligent. I turn letters - so what? I also talk. I talk on the show! People know my name on the show.

Vanna White

#55. We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

Tom Colicchio

#56. He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but from what the man said, I had to believe that sometime in the recent past the laws regarding sedition must have changed.

Jeff Lindsay

#57. One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents would talk about 'The Sopranos', having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side.

Terence Winter

#58. Dust is watching life's talk show.

James Tate

#59. 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

#60. I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

Jack Zipes

#61. There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

Danny Bonaduce

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

Paul Reubens

#65. 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

#66. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

Oprah Winfrey

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.

Archibald Marwizi

#71. 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

#72. Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

Jamie Oliver

#73. 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

#74. Mom sez I like talk radio, teaching, and consulting 'cuz they ensure captive audiences. True or not (let Freudians decide), I'm driven by a "four eyed" mission to inform, instruct, intrigue, and inspire. Moreover, I like interactivity: If you're listening, I'm listening. Talk with me!

Lisa Tolliver

#75. 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

#76. The beautiful in life ...
Some talk of it in poetry,
Some grow it from the soil,
Some build it in a steeple,
Some show it through their toil.
Some breathe it into music,
Some mold it into art,
Some shape it into bread loaves ...
Some hold it in their hearts.

Bernard Meltzer

#77. They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.

Tameka Cottle

#78. Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It's like an acid trip drag show.

Libba Bray

#79. I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

Mark Zuckerberg

#80. 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

#81. I would like to do my own daily talk show. Wisdom is the gift of ageing; no young person can have or buy it. My success was and is self-evident. I'm alive. I've lived. I've thrived and have grown as a person. I'm now healthier than ever. Who can argue with that?

Suzanne Somers

#82. I know that I won't be modelling forever, but I think I'll be in the entertainment industry. I would love to host a talk show one day or have a cooking show. I love to cook ... I'm really open, so we'll see.

Gigi Hadid

#83. 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

#84. The day you start institutionalizing "Walk the talk" life shall show the dream to reality path.

V.V. Rao

#85. A lot of times when I say I didn't do anything I was actually in Miami doing a show.

Girl Talk

#86. When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

Tracy Chapman

#87. When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Ben Shahn

#88. When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.

Rachel Roy

#89. Straight Man: But my daughter belongs to a talk show generation that seems to be losing the ability to discriminate between public and private woes.

Richard Russo

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

Genevieve Gorder

#91. Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

Bridget Kelly

#92. 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

#93. Into The Woods was ... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

Bernadette Peters

#94. People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.

Donald Trump Jr.

#95. 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

#96. Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

Roger Maris

#97. Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.

Ross Mathews

#98. I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

Anthony Newley

#99. I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

Arsenio Hall

#100. One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

Tony Goldwyn