Bill Kurtis

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. ”

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world. ”

We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue. ”

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job. ”

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch. ”

There's room for a diversity of ages on television. ”

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo. ”

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. ”

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it. ”

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it. ”