Jane Pauley

“Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.”

“I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.”

“Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.”

“I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.”

“I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.”

“I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.”

“I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.”

“I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.”

“My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.”

“My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.”

“Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.”

“It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.”

“I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.”

“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”

“My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.”

“When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.”

“It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.”

“I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.”

“I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.”

“'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.”