Top 214 Quotes & Sayings by Megyn Kelly
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Megyn Kelly.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Television can be a very fickle place.
Television is a service, but it's also a business.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
Men should have more time with their newborn babies.
I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.
The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.
In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.
There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.
I see it as this: I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially. So if there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it, and, of course, is my child okay?
I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.
I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.
I still don't consider myself a fashion girl.
When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.
The viewer I picture in my mind when I do 'The Kelly File' is a woman who's had a long day, either with the kids or at work, or both.
I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had, but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self.
I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.
A woman can be harassed and then go on to have a good working relationship with the man harassing her.
Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.
You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it's problematic.
Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
While I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear because he spent many months stoking it.
I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.
I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.
What I don't like is talking points.
Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.
I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.
I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.
I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' right? It's, like, what am I doing there? This is bizarre.
I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.
Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.
I distinctly remember being very young, sixth grade maybe, and being at a party and hearing the mothers discuss the children. And the mothers said, 'Well, it's very clear who's the leader in the group.' And they were talking about me!
I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.
I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.
I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.
I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.
I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.
As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
I keep my head down, my mouth shut and work hard.
I'm a struggling guitar player.
If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.
Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the workforce for a long time, and when they come back, of course they're not going to get exactly equal pay?
The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.
I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.
When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.
There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.
I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.
I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.
When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.
I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.
Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.
I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'
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