Bradley Walsh Quotes

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.