Top Anchorman Quotes Collection

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Image of Steve Carell
I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.
- Steve Carell
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Walter Cronkite
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Walter Cronkite
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Anchorman
Image of David Koechner
I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.
- David Koechner
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Linda Ellerbee
Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.
- Linda Ellerbee
Collection: Anchorman
Image of John Oliver
I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.
- John Oliver
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Dan Rather
When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.
- Dan Rather
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Lance Morrow
The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
- Lance Morrow
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Keith Olbermann
The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 - "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course."
- Keith Olbermann
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Steve Carell
Because I went from the Daily Show where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show to Bruce Almighty where I played a news guy to Anchorman where I played a news guy, now I'm...yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.
- Steve Carell
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Walter Cronkite
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Walter Cronkite
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Will Ferrell
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
- Will Ferrell
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Will Ferrell
I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!
- Will Ferrell
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Judd Apatow
I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.
- Judd Apatow
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Kathryn Hahn
I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?
- Kathryn Hahn
Collection: Anchorman
Image of Eva Mendes
Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
- Eva Mendes
Collection: Anchorman