Andy Richter Quotes

Question Time' had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of all the jobs in broadcasting that's the job I knew I wanted to do.

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.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

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

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

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

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

I fantasized being a broadcaster.

I love TV and I think it would be cool to be a host one day.

Having my own show - it's not something that I think of. It's not.

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 want to be a late night host and the podcast is a way for me to do longer form interviews and to get better at interviewing.

I would love to do co-hosting somewhere to some degree.

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.'

Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

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