Presenter Quotes

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, Wish, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.94, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Skills, Born

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• The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

  Robert Bly

  Business, Conversation, Audience

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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• If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

  Dianna Daniels Booher

  Change, Writing, Oratory

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• No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

  Michael De Luca

  Fun, Awards, Matter

  Source: variety.com

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• This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Lovely, Spoons, Oscars

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• I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Editors, News

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• Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

  Neil Oliver

  Television, Plans

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I always wanted to be a Blue Peter presenter when I grew up!

  Sophie Aldred

  Blue, Grew Up, Peter

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• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Being Me, Screens, Jimmy

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• We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

  Walter Isaacson

  Shoes, Journalism, Niche

  "Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2002.

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• Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

  Steve Carell

  Needs, Care, Oscars

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• One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

  David Icke

  Children, Greatest Fear, Hands

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

  Anton du Beke

  Goal, Dancer, Tvs

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

  Terry Wogan

  Years, Creative, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Art, Museums, Interesting

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• Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

  Diane Abbott

  Watches, Television, Casting

  "Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

  Michael Palin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

  David Icke

  Television, Green, Next

  David Icke (1990). “It Doesn't Have to be Like this: Green Politics Explained”, Merlin Press

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• The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Boys, Blue, Black

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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• I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?

  Ryan Giggs

  Jobs, Going Out, Taste

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• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

  Ezra Pound

  Imagination, Brain, Suspense

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.1208, Delphi Classics

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