Quotes About Presenting

Since I've left 'Blue Peter' I've presented all sorts of different things. I've done a music show, for instance, and 'Blue Peter' had music on it. I've done a politics show, but on 'Blue Peter' I interviewed the Prime Minister. I've done travel stuff where I've gone abroad, but 'Blue Peter' had that within it as well.

Presenting a show is totally different to what I'm used to. People think it's easy but it's much more difficult than they think. But, by the end, I will be a pro.

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years.

I'm used to presenting programs about pop music, interviewing pop stars, and hosting awards.

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present, DJ or just consult. It can't be any other way; I think I would shrivel up and fall asleep forever.

I started presenting when I was 16, and because TV is such a small world, you often end up working with the same people. I would say I've worked with pretty much the same circle of people ever since, so in a way I have always felt cradled by them, protected; they've looked out for me because they've known me since I was a child.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

The credibility of media is at the lowest level, but instead of reviving the trust with the people they are digging more holes for themselves only with the type of news it presents.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

I have always been on television in cricket hosting, anchoring reality shows.

The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the impropriety of presenting one's self as the proposer of any useful project, that might be suppos'd to raise one's reputation in the smallest degree above that of one's neighbours, when one has need of their assistance to accomplish that project.

Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going to wake up very early and it will be a reality. I can't wait.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them"

There was no other training ground like kids' telly for becoming a TV presenter.

I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.

I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London in 1979. That led on to me presenting a show in the early days of Channel 4 called 'Whatever You Want,' which had live music and sketches.

Such a huge amount of respect for people who regularly present live television - it's a skill and it's not easy.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

What will set you apart from everybody else is the relentlessness you bring to learning and presenting and selling your content. Take

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.