Quotes by Willard Scott

About Willard Scott:

Willard Herman Scott, Jr. is an American weather presenter, author, television personality and occasional actor, best known for his TV work on the Today show and as the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.
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I get all fired up about aging in America.

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My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

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The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

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Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of...

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The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

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I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

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Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

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I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

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I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

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Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

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Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

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I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.

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Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

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When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

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Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

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Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

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As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

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Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

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Author Bio

  • NameWillard Scott
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornMarch 7, 1934
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Author