Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Lauer - Page 2

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.

If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.

I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.

The fact that you fell out of bed makes some people think you had more than one drink before you called for help.

So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?