Nina Turner Quotes

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

I'm not those kind of persons that's afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I'm always the same.

When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, 'He is really the same person I saw on television.'

After working over 8 years in radio to build my brand, I would never want to misrepresent myself.

I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.

For a while, I really wasn't fussed about having a public profile. I have come to the realization that I am a lot more comfortable with it than I was.

Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

I don't think I ever won't do radio. I feel like, between the radio, the podcast, the books, even social media, you have to be a personality eleven places now, or you're not a personality anywhere.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.

I don't knock anyone's hustle, but I didn't want to slap my name on anything that wasn't authentic to me.