Television Quotes by Ira Glass

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

— Ira Glass

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.…

— Ira Glass

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for…

— Ira Glass

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I…

— Ira Glass

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

— Ira Glass

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want…

— Ira Glass

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

— Ira Glass

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for…

— Ira Glass

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

— Ira Glass

I'm a cliche.

— Ira Glass

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

— Ira Glass

I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice…

— Ira Glass

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

— Ira Glass

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is…

— Ira Glass

I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put…

— Ira Glass