A biography for Tamron Hallhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.”
“I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.”
“I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.”
“My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.”
“Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.”
“The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.”
“I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.”
“The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!”
“We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?”
“I have an incredible phobia of divorce.”
“If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.”
“What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.”
“Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.”
“When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.”
“I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.”
“Someone - a man - advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.”
“I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.”
“I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.”
“It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.”
“On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.”