92 Quotes by Jane Pauley

I would not take for granted that my personal life – because I knew better than anybody – that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

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.

I’ve always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

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 may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That’s how I feel.

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.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I’m oriented to change.

I was an unusually private person – in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

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