Media Career Quotes

I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

I want to concentrate on movies. Bollywood is my priority, but that doesn't mean I will stop working on series. I want to do both.

I never want to be like somebody but be my own person, but follow along those lines like a Matt Millen, Michael Strahan. There's so many players that have transitioned to being an anchor or a broadcaster, and it kind of just goes hand-in-hand.

I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!'

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

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

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

I've now done virtually everything there is to do in TV presenting: I've done sport shows, comedy shows, and I'm now doing music, which is great for me.

I made a sort-of living in the beginning of my acting career as a reporter. I think my very first job was 'Early Edition' as reporter no. 1, and for 'Light It Up,' I was reporter no. 2.

I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Since I've left 'Blue Peter' I've presented all sorts of different things. I've done a music show, for instance, and 'Blue Peter' had music on it. I've done a politics show, but on 'Blue Peter' I interviewed the Prime Minister. I've done travel stuff where I've gone abroad, but 'Blue Peter' had that within it as well.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.