Top 88 Presenter Quotes & Sayings

As a presenter on 'Daybreak,' I am lucky in that we have a brilliant wardrobe lady who chooses our on-screen clothes.

As a TV presenter I've found it's important to always have great looking feet.

I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.

You're a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That's all that matters on telly.

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

All "bad" presentations struggle to keep the audience interested. The audience squirms wishing they could escape. The audience has given the presenter an hour of their life, so they want that hour to be useful. It's disrespectful of a presenter to not show up rehearsed and prepared with information and insights that will improve the lives of the audience in some way. Presenting will do only one of two things for you: it will either diminish your credibility or yield results. Most bad presentations hurt the presenter's credibility.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

Being a 'Blue Peter' presenter is not well paid.

I sort of have imposter syndrome, and I think when is this all going to end, when are they going to realise that I'm not a proper TV presenter.

When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.

I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn't sing and I couldn't act. I could dance a little. So what was there left for me to do? Television presenter. That was it.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.

I'm a television presenter, television is my first love.

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

I'm a proud ex-BBC employee, but its flip-flop over presenter Naga Munchetty - first censured for sharing her experience of racism, then absolved when the decision caused uproar - doesn't look good.

We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

I never imagined I'd be a presenter on television, but I'm happy to put myself out of my comfort zone.

I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird.

I'd happily describe myself as a TV presenter now.

In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to use a special tool, or help the hero get unstuck. In a presentation setting, the presenter is the mentor. Our role as a presenter is similar to a mentor. We should be brining something of important value to our audience, they should not leave empty handed. There should be something useful and somewhat life-altering that we give them. It's not very often that we sit through a presentation and feel like we've sat at the feet of a mentor, but we should.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a presenter, so when I started doing 'Have I Got News For You', I carried on that persona.

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

I'm so excited to be the presenter of the first-ever Glow Up Ireland.'

I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

Yes I'm a TV presenter and a mum and a wife and all those things, but as much as I love a duvet day with my family, I also like rockclimbing and getting dressed up for a glamorous evening now and then.

When I became a presenter, Bob Wilson was the only other ex-sportsman doing it.

There was no other training ground like kids' telly for becoming a TV presenter.

I think in terms of being a good presenter, it's not as simple as having been out in a war zone. Actually the news is far broader than that.

My parents are very proud that I was a 'Blue Peter' presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.

People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter.

As a presenter, while I might suddenly want to start talking about something completely different, I have to stick to what we've agreed in order for all these other people to get their bits into the programme. So you have to be quite disciplined.

I had a short run as the presenter of 'Cash in the Attic'. It's a very popular show but didn't really suit me.

Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the 'Strictly' judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

To be considered part of the fashion zeitgeist is fun, but it will never steal my focus from my qualifications as a food writer, presenter and communicator.

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

At 24 I was a wannabe. I was not a 'former TV presenter' as everybody says - I was a young girl living on a wish, appearing on the roulette channel at 1 am and selling cordless kettles on Channel 953.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

I'm a presenter.

I'm not a presenter - I'm a star.

As a presenter, you have to speak with artificial energy and enthusiasm.

You're an example as a kids' presenter, so there is a responsibility there. But they got lucky with me - I'm not into heavy nights out.

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

I did several corporate gigs as a presenter, worked on a few branded campaigns and also made money from my rugby events company and my business, Leaf Hospitality.

I always wanted to be a Blue Peter presenter when I grew up!

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.

I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.

My mother, Jeanne, was a TV and radio presenter in Jamaica. Bob Marley used to appear on her shows all the time and so she knew him quite well.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!

[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.