Andy Cohen Quotes

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

I've now done virtually everything there is to do in TV presenting: I've done sport shows, comedy shows, and I'm now doing music, which is great for me.

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

I did radio for a year and did some TV things, and I was already in place at ESPN before 'The Bachelorette' started.

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'

I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would write, produce, do live shots. Yeah, I loved it. That's how I cut my teeth in the business.

I fell into TV quite by accident but once I was in a newsroom for the very first time, I was hooked because I loved the adrenaline. There was a breaking story that day and people were running around to get the news on the air. I thought, Jesus, how do you get to do this? So, that's how it started. The bulk of my career was in TV.

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

I want to do more work behind the camera.

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

My first taste of the business was the glamorous job of pulling camera cables so they wouldn't get tangled while the football games were filmed.

Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.

Yes, I started out as an anchor on television, but that was just 'me being me,' trying to make some pocket money.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.