Kristen Welker Quotes

When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.

But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism… not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

I liked television, and television liked me.

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

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

Television is a huge medium and the best way to popularize yourself.

Courtney Love is so famous among journalists for her loquaciousness that the joke is that you don't have to worry about questions when you interview her - just be sure you have lots of tape.

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

I have the utmost respect for red carpet interviewers; it is such a hard job.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.

As a little kid, I would watch Oprah almost every day.

I've worked as an E! News correspondent covering New York Fashion Week and have appeared on several fashion shows and online sites.

I would like to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' because I want to be a star.

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

I love doing talk shows.

I miss watching TV and thinking they were all real. I used to feel like that about 'Neighbours.'

Who didn't want to dance like Michael Jackson? I know I did.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel... at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences... Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

I watch a lot of Disney.