Wyatt Cenac Quotes

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for me. And writing stories and reading and talking to people is something that I just enjoy doing, so I figured why not try to build up a post-basketball career with that.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

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

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I always imagined myself doing what Barbara Walters did on '20/20.' That, essentially, is what inspired me to go to journalism school.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

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.

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

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

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

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

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

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

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.