Quotes and Sayings About Anchorman
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I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
-- Andy Cohen -
Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
-- Eva Mendes -
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I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.
-- Judd Apatow -
I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?
-- Kathryn HahnSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course.
-- Keith OlbermannSource : "As Rather signs off 'Evening News,' the 'voice of God' anchor era ends" by Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, March 09, 2005.
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The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
-- Lance Morrow -
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When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.
-- Linda Ellerbee -
Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.
-- Linda EllerbeeSource : Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group
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The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.
-- Meryl Streep -
I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
-- Ted Koppel -
I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
-- Tom Brokaw -
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
-- Walter Cronkite -
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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