Pete Holmes Quotes

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

I don't think I ever won't do radio. I feel like, between the radio, the podcast, the books, even social media, you have to be a personality eleven places now, or you're not a personality anywhere.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

If I come on three days after the Super Bowl and say pretty much what everybody else has said, what's the point? That was the tricky thing... coming up with a new angle every time - or most times, because you couldn't bat a thousand.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

I always had an ability to listen and give people the space to open up and express themselves, and I was hoping it would translate on TV.

I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

I don't feel like I'm overwhelmed from meeting people and telling my story over and over again.

I do give interviews, but I am generally media-shy because I am an introvert by nature.

Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.