A biography for Anderson Cooperhasn’t been written yet.
“I like new technology.”
“I don't want to do anything that puts my team members, my camera people or producers, in danger, so it's an ongoing dialogue on all the stories that we do.”
“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
“My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.”
“Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”
“If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.”
“The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.”
“The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.”
“I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.”
“I realized I didn't want there to be anything left unsaid with my mom. I didn't want there to be questions that I still had about who she was and what her life was like. And I didn't want her to have questions about me as an adult.”
“Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.”
“I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.”
“I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.”
“From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.”
“Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.”
“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”