W. Kamau Bell Quotes

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

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.

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

It's not easy to do morning TV. A lot of people think you just show up and be yourself, but one of the hardest things to do is be yourself when the camera comes on.

I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

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

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

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.

Anderson Cooper is fine. He is a smart, conscientious guy, and he seems to want his show to produce and highlight good journalism. But he also seems to want to replace Regis, or maybe even Oprah.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.

In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.

My dream job is to be the Robin to Anderson Cooper's Batman.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

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.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

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

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.

My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of 'Good Day New York,' and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.

I fantasized being a broadcaster.