Today Show Quotes

#1. Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Roker

#2. This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

Jane Pauley

#3. I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

Jeff Zucker

#4. What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show ... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'

Jane Pauley

#5. I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

Kathie Lee Gifford

#6. In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.

Annie Jacobsen

#7. Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

Bradford Winters

#8. I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.

Lexi Thompson

#9. Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

Mo Rocca

#10. I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

Ann Curry

#11. When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

Matt Lauer

#12. Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it.

Tom Brokaw

#13. You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.

Rob Sheffield

#14. I try to get in two runs during the week, after the 'Today' show, probably around 1 or 2 o'clock, Tuesday, Thursday. Then Saturday or Sunday, I do my longer runs and try to do it in the morning.

Al Roker

#15. Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#16. Gary Busey said on the Today Show yesterday that Donald Trump would make a great President. Now Trump just needs endorsements from Randy Quaid and Charlie Sheen.

Conan O'Brien

#17. It's no longer about pitching the Today Show. It's about creating content that will attract the Today Show.

David Meerman Scott

#18. I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

Willard Scott

#19. In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

Jane Pauley

#20. I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.

Lindsey Vonn

#21. But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results.

Marco Scutaro

#22. I Am excited, this is a new day and one I have never experienced nor will again. What fantabulous miracles will show up today!

Lee Pryke

#23. Today, I show you Lake Como even though I don't know fuck all about Lake Como; I do know how to drive a boat. Tonight, no parties, no friends, no nothing. You, me, dinner. Later tonight, just you and me. You with me?"
"I'm with you," I whispered, and I was with him. So with him.

Kristen Ashley

#24. If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Brent Spiner

#25. I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.

Willard Scott

#26. And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Selby

#27. My cinema - the '50s, '60s - is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.

Gina Lollobrigida

#28. I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

Britt Ekland

#29. You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says 'look here, look here,' the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that's exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.

Ali Sheikh

#30. In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

Thomas Sowell

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

Anne Sexton

#32. I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden

#33. Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

Beverly Cleary

#34. Today I acquired a collection of ray guns, posed for a cover spread, and wrote four thousand words of essay, including a reminder for my readers to avoid that terrible gallery show. What have you done?"
"Science," Drake said, annoyance shadowing his face as he crossed to the bar.

Michael R. Underwood

#35. It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to." "So no pressure, Harry," said Fred, winking at him.

J.K. Rowling

#36. No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

Paulo Coelho

#37. Commitment in relationship, has today resurrected into an experienced Goliath, in a land where David is already dead and buried. Show me anyone who may be willing to face the new experienced Goliath?

Francis Otieno

#38. Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help.

Harlan Coben

#39. Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

Ron Ben-Israel

#40. I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#41. I am all for the inclusion of foreign cultures, not their omission in our media. Foreign names, brands, and inventions must be allowed to show and to compete in US publications. Today, most foreign words are still banned. And almost 7 billion people whose first language is not English are silenced.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#42. I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my show

Lady Gaga

#43. [International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.

Antonin Scalia

#44. Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future. The people you're hanging out with today are shaping the person you will become tomorrow.

Craig Groeschel

#45. It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

Conan O'Brien

#46. Most of me believed she wouldn't show up today, but a small part of me still held out hope. I can't say that her choice has broken my heart, because that would mean my heart was still whole to be broken.

Colleen Hoover

#47. The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

Amilcar Cabral

#48. I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.

Mark Martin

#49. Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Theresa May

#50. We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of communicating it. We are tending to still use the style from 50 years back that doesn't match who we are trying to reach today.

Rick Warren

#51. 'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy.

George Noory

#52. If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

Seth Godin

#53. Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

Matt Cameron

#54. We started writing the shows in order, and then very quickly had to jump to, "Oh, we got Tony Hale today and Jessica [Walter." We've got to jump ahead and write that stuff that's in Jessica's show. Fortunately, we knew the story, but it was challenging.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#55. We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.

Bill Irwin

#56. I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

Celeste Ng

#57. 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

#58. I would never go back to doing the show again. I mean, every day I think about Lifestyles because somebody comes up to me and tells me how much they love the show and I should bring it back, but this is not the time to bring it back. I don't think it would be as successful today as it once was.

Robin Leach

#59. You can use the internet in a way that's actually really great. It doesn't have to be about how amazing you are, or "Come watch my show!," or "Look what I'm wearing today." It doesn't have to be narcissistic.

Alexander Skarsgard

#60. I stare into my own eyes for a moment. Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. And tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them.

Veronica Roth

#61. I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Hannah Hoch

#62. May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

Mira Grant

#63. [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Stephen King

#64. Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.

Roger Daltrey

#65. A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

Diplo

#66. I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

Jonas Armstrong

#67. I got a call from my mom today, she says, 'Well, David, I see you didn't get the 'Tonight Show' again,'

David Letterman

#68. One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together ... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

James E. Faust

#69. I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

Don Rickles

#70. We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.

Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

#71. My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

Brian Greene

#72. You want Change, today we'll show you Change!
Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

NoViolet Bulawayo

#73. Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the results of
how it was treated today.
So treat it kindly and with respect.

Jana Elston

#74. People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

Julia Child

#75. Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

David Icke

#76. The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.

Jay Leno

#77. My parents ... They died today ... They died for me. -Tris
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four

Veronica Roth

#78. Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.

James Wolcott

#79. Today for show & tell, I've brought in some flash cards I made. Each card has a letter followed by several dashes. When I show the card, you yell out the vulgar, obscene or blasphemous word they stand for! ... Ready? ... She's such a hypocrite about building vocabulary.

Bill Watterson

#80. Schwarzenegger said last night on the show he expects his opponents to throw all kinds of dirt at him. And you know, it's started already. Today, they released the one thing that could really hurt Arnold. Turns out he once starred in a movie with Tom Arnold.

Jay Leno

#81. Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#82. If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

Hoda Kotb

#83. How are you going to choose to show up for life today?

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#84. As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

Andie MacDowell

#85. In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

Mark Goddard

#86. It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Hilary Putnam

#87. I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.

Miranda Lambert

#88. Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.

Gary L. Thomas

#89. I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

John Ridley

#90. When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

Joe Dante

#91. We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

Francis Maude

#92. Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

Pico Iyer

#93. We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#94. Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be.

Donna Douglas

#95. Just a little bit too freaked to go to The Freak Show today.

Tamaki, Mariko

#96. Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

David Letterman

#97. Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty to show themselves worthy of the mission given them by the Creator by ensuring the safekeeping of that creation.

Pope John Paul II

#98. Nasty. We're meeting a bunch of important people today, and you're supposed to be our new director. You can't show up flaunting how much you crave cock and are scared of soap.

Erica Chilson

#99. Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

O. S. Hawkins

#100. I have learned compassion and to show love for everyone, because of what I have been through. I have also found out how strong I can be, both with God and for him. God lives inside of me and that's the only reason I am still here today.

Stephanie Carpenter