Jane Pauley Quotes

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Jane Pauley

Goal, Cancer, Illness

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
Jane Pauley

Dreams, Work, Envy

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
Jane Pauley

Dangerous, Mood, Dramatic

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
Jane Pauley

Reputation, Fit, Annoyed

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
Jane Pauley

Enough, Shame, Burden

AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
Jane Pauley

Future, Process, Knows

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
Jane Pauley

Change, Age, Time

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.
Jane Pauley

Time, Children, Woman

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
Jane Pauley

Women, Mother, Long

'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.
Jane Pauley

Good, Morning, America

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
Jane Pauley

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
Jane Pauley

Work, Age, Children

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
Jane Pauley

Children, Friends, Until

I do like some of the perks, like being, recognized, especially if I've had my makeup done and I'm going to be photographed and people admire me. Who wouldn't like that?
Jane Pauley

Done, Makeup, Admire

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.
Jane Pauley

Work, Depression, Enough

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
Jane Pauley

Work, Depression, Enough

I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.
Jane Pauley

Hate, Why, Picture

I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.
Jane Pauley

Good, Place, Sense

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.
Jane Pauley

Mother, Children, Small

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
Jane Pauley

Love, Laugh, Working

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.
Jane Pauley

Leave, Realize, Shy

I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.
Jane Pauley

Time, Career, After

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
Jane Pauley

Life, Result, Awful

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
Jane Pauley

Work, Best, Home

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Jane Pauley

Success, Successful, True

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: October 31, 1950

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