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Quotes by Entertainer

"Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy."

"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"

"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

"We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that."
Food,

"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."

"If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully."

"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar."

"President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader."

"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."

"Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?"

"In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame."

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"

"Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life."
Life,

"And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area."

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."

"I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius."

"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment."

"Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse."

"My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes."

"Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in."

"My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died."

"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."

"Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness."

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

"If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool."

"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever."

"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football."

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"

"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."

"I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes."

"I was faced more with apathy than opposition."

"I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question."

"And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent."

"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"

"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."

"More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments."

"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."
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