Quotes from Matt Lauer

I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer. I never had an idea that I would do anything in front of the camera, and that kind of happened by accident. But I wanted to be a producer or give me a job with the Yankees or play for the Knicks. I was a sports nut when I was a kid.

I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?

Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

You get your dream job and, in my opinion, despite anything they might say about you professionally or personally, you shut up, and you just do the job - and enjoy it.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'

My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?

Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

If you have a bad experience on the air, you don't think you've done your job, or you have an embarrassing moment. I guarantee you'll work harder the next time not to let it happen again.

Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.

I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.

The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.

I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.

I am the luckiest guy I know.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.