Dick Van Dyke Quotes

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

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.

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

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

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

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

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

I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.

I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

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

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

What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

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.'

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

Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor, a people person, and enjoys talking.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

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

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.

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

I fantasized being a broadcaster.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.