Media person Quotes

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands.

Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am.

I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!

I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.

I can't narrow either one down to just one thing.

I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak.

It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever.

Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food.

But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.

Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming.

But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a respectable grade on something that I know he's worked hard on. And good health excites me, too.

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist.

But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"

Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change.

Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.

I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn’t get published any other way.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.

Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong.

They are so common in show business.

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

And it was important to my parents that I get my degree in 4 years, because "Money doesn't grow on trees." [LOL] I will support my son in whatever he wants to do professionally, but he will go to college, too. My husband and I are in concert on that.

Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone.

So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.

I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much to maintain what's already going on that I don't have time to think about it. But I want some more seasons of the TV show, I'd like to write another book, and eventually, I'd like to retire and take vacations with my husband like my mom and dad do.