Commodity Quote by Jesse Ventura

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me…

— Mika Brzezinski

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…

— Betty White

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

— Tyra Banks

I had worked my way up at Fox. I started in 2007, working the overnight shift on the weekends. I would do one-minute news-of-the-day…

— Ainsley Earhardt

Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.

— Ross Mathews

I grew up at NBC and started there right out of college. I learned producing and booking. I was on MSNBC, 'Today' and 'Nightly.'…

— Margaret Brennan

I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.

— Valerie Harper

After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered…

— Maura Tierney

I'm not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go…

— Wendy Williams

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

— Kimberly Caldwell

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

— Tamron Hall

I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours is a long time.…

— Kevin Connolly