A biography for Anderson Cooperhasn’t been written yet.
“The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”
“My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to than, like, some statue of a great-great-great grandfather who has no connection to my life.”
“I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.”
“I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.”
“I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.”
“That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.”
“If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.”
“There's a number of places I've wanted to go but it's been determined too risky or that I'm relatively well-known, and therefore it might not be wise for me to pop up in this place.”
“Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.”
“I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.”
“It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.”
“If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.”
“I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.”
“Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment.”
“Misquoting drives me bananas.”
“I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.”
“If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.”
“It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.”
“In my real life, I wear a T-shirt, gray or white, and the same pair of jeans. Literally, the same pair of jeans every day.”
“The war in Afghanistan is underreported.”