Top 45 Anderson Cooper Quotes

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would have been so motivated.

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

I realized I didn’t want there to be anything left unsaid with my mom. I didn’t want there to be questions that I still had about who she was and what her life was like. And I didn’t want her to have questions about me as an adult.

Who’s, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives?

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white – what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don’t know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don’t know as long as you say you don’t know it.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you’re not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you’re special and begin to expect it.

Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

It’s nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I’m planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

A lot of people know the name Gloria Vanderbilt, but they don’t really know the whole story behind her, the real person that she is.

To realize that your mother’s love life has been far more interesting than one’s own is a weird thing to discover.

That’s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

I suppose if you’ve never bitten your nails, there isn’t any way to explain the habit. It’s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction – pride in a job well done.

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we’re going to cover it in a way that’s non-partisan, that’s not left or right.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don’t talk about my personal life. It’s a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one’s past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

I don’t think I’m fearless at all. I think anybody who says they’re fearless doesn’t last very long. I think I’m pretty cautious, actually.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren’t being told, and the fact that people don’t know about them compounds the suffering.

My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that’s a healthier thing to pay attention to than, like, some statue of a great-great-great grandfather who has no connection to my life.

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

I still feel like I’m learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

In my real life, I wear a T-shirt, gray or white, and the same pair of jeans. Literally, the same pair of jeans every day.

I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.

I think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

When you lose a parent at ten years old, the world seems like a much scarier place. It makes complete sense to me that I took survival courses when I was a teenager and started going to war zones as a reporter. I didn’t ever want to be taken advantage of, and I wanted to be able to take care of those around me.

I’ve never been a Burger King person. I’m a total McDonald’s person.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you’re not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you’re special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that’s the kiss of death.

I’d like to have kids at some point. I think I’ll have a family someday.

I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away – the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don’t think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don’t buy it.

I have a friend – I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don’t want a million texts. It’s exhausting.

Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I’m really grateful for that.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I’ve always gone on my instincts.

I’m concerned about heart disease. I’ve raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

Anyone who says they’re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

If I’m hip, we’ve got a problem in this country. I really shouldn’t be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I’m sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There’s a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

I don’t believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid or frightened. I think it’s normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.