Top 35 Presenter Quotes

I never imagined I’d be a presenter on television, but I’m happy to put myself out of my comfort zone.

I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.

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.

I always say I’m more of a food writer than a TV presenter, because that’s what I’m trained in, that’s what I spend most of my year doing. TV is about performance and I’ve never had any training.

My parents are very proud that I was a ‘Blue Peter’ presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.

It doesn’t annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It’s a subtle distinction, but that’s how I view it.

You’re a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That’s all that matters on telly.

As a TV presenter I’ve found it’s important to always have great looking feet.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor – not a commentator or analyst.

When I became a presenter, Bob Wilson was the only other ex-sportsman doing it.

‘Bradshaw’s’ is a lovely device for the time-travelling television presenter. I just hope that people buying it aren’t doing so with the intention of plotting a tour of 21st-century Europe. They’ll find quite a lot has changed since 1913.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

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.

I think in terms of being a good presenter, it’s not as simple as having been out in a war zone. Actually the news is far broader than that.

I’d happily describe myself as a TV presenter now.

My mother, Jeanne, was a TV and radio presenter in Jamaica. Bob Marley used to appear on her shows all the time and so she knew him quite well.

I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a presenter, so when I started doing ‘Have I Got News For You’, I carried on that persona.

I’m not a presenter – I’m a star.

‘Senior Citizen’ and ‘Silver Surfer’ are the new euphemisms. Unless you’re a female presenter on TV, in which case you’re ready for the knacker’s yard at 35.

People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.

I couldn’t care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

At 24 I was a wannabe. I was not a ‘former TV presenter’ as everybody says – I was a young girl living on a wish, appearing on the roulette channel at 1 am and selling cordless kettles on Channel 953.

I’m only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it’s all just been a massive fluke.

It is with enormous regret that I have decided to leave Wish You Were Here?’ after two very happy years as its presenter. It was always my intention to do two years on this wonderful program and now it is time for me to move on to other things.

I didn’t mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it’s turned into this ‘It-girl’ thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It’s so weird.

Being a ‘Blue Peter’ presenter is not well paid.

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.

My big sister’s an engineer, my oldest brother is a lecturer at Cambridge University, another is a kidney specialist, another is an engineer, one set up his own business, my other sister’s training to be a teacher and there’s me wanting to be a presenter.

I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know – I don’t even know who it was – said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called ‘The Word,’ and I got that job.

Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the ‘Strictly’ judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.

I’m a presenter.

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never – I don’t think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

You’re an example as a kids’ presenter, so there is a responsibility there. But they got lucky with me – I’m not into heavy nights out.

You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you’re not a presenter and haven’t been invited to any of the parties.