Top 6 Anchorman Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 6 of the best anchorman quotes ever written, picked out of the full anchorman archive on QuoteForever. You will find Walter Cronkite, Judd Apatow, Ted Koppel and Zoey Deutch among them.

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1

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.

2

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan.

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