Andy Cohen Quotes

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

Candy Crowley's hair is PERFECT!!

I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.

Dreams are really boring, but every so often I threw in a doozy.

I'm actually interested and enthusiastic. Even when I walk into a show not knowing much about my guest, I always come away as more of a fan or enthusiast.

My favorite ginger is Prince Harry!

I absolutely love low-key restaurants.

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.

There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.

When in doubt, I go to the phones a lot because it adds a new dimension and a new energy. It kind of takes me out of the equation if I feel like I irritated them or they aren't into the experience.

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.

I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

Sometimes the name is funnier than the game itself.

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily.

Just go with your gut and communicate.

I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!

I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.

I think [Anderson Cooper ] and me both enjoy working, and don't consider it "work," so as long as I'm having fun I will continue at this pace.

Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating look inside the reality of what that whole madness is about.

Prince Harry is like the biggest international star there is.