Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.

Bill Moyers

If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

Aaron Sanchez

Love Would Ways

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

Alan Dershowitz

You Wit Talk Show

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Alan Dershowitz

Men Life Tend

I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.

Alan Zweibel

Yes Written Very

I started on television. I had five years of network television before I ever got up on a stage. The first thing I ever did was in 1967. This guy Bill Keene had a little talk show at noon, and Gary Owens took over for a week. He knew about this dummy bit I used to do, this ventriloquist thing, and I was on 'Keene at Noon.'

Albert Brooks

Work Art Age

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

Alec Baldwin

Work Ways Way

Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!

Alex Pareene

Great Wrong Wit

I went on YouTube and saw videos of Angelina Jolie on some talk show showing people switchblade tricks, and I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Alycia Debnam-Carey

YouTube You Witch

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

Amanda Lear

Talk Show Talk Takes

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

Amanda Seyfried

Us UN Talk Show

As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.

Anand Giridharadas

Teen Morning Family

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

Andy Milonakis

You Watch Very

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

Andy Richter

War Men Your

For a long time I wasn't allowed to be anything but 'The Governess' when I went on TV, even if I went on a talk show I had to be in costume. I mean guys, I own clothes!

Anne Hegerty

Time Wed TV

I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

Anthony Newley

You Ways Way

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

Anupam Kher

Want Them Talk Show

Joining 'Hee Haw' was one of of the best moves I ever made. Until then I had no television exposure except the talk shows.

Barbi Benton

Vision Until UN

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Bess Myerson

Talk Show Talk T

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

Betty White

You Years Year

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Bill Hader

Yin Wit Where

Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.

Bill Moyers

I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.

Billy Eichner

No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

Billy Eichner

I would watch a lot of old tapes of David Letterman doing his talk show and a lot of interviews. I never had a mentor in my career because my approach has always been so different. Letterman stayed true to who he was, and his staff was always fantastic, so for me, that was always important.

Bobby Bones

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

Bobcat Goldthwait

I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.

Bonnie Hunt

I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

Bret Stephens

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

Carrot Top

I love doing talk shows.

Cenk Uygur

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

Charles R. Swindoll

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

Charlie Day

To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.

Chevy Chase

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

Chris Bell

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

Chris Gethard

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Chris Lilley

I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn't know what to say. And I don't feel I have any inherent interest. But as I'm getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone.

Christopher Lloyd

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

Connie Chung

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

Craig Ferguson

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

Craig Ferguson

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

Cristina Saralegui

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

Cybill Shepherd

Oprah Winfrey has a spiritual connection with so much of this country, and it was built over years and years of doing that talk show.

Dagen McDowell

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

Dan Abrams

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Dan Abrams

There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

Danny Bonaduce

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

Dave Navarro

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

David Letterman

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

Devon Sawa

I was voted Most Happy-Go-Lucky in high school. Can you believe that? I was crying every other day by myself, but I was voted Most Optimistic and Most Likely to Have Her Own Television Talk Show.

Diane Guerrero

It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

Dick Cavett