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Howard Stern Quotes

Total quotes: 39
“If you look up the neighborhood I grew up in, it’s horrendous. It’s such a bad neighborhood, and it was so disturbing to be one of the few white families left in the community. And my parents never came to me and discussed it.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Segregation, White Flight, Bad Neighborhoods
“My mother and I had many conversations, but most of them were about her, her upbringing, her development and how I could please her. And my sister is great, but we were never emotionally close. So I think that a lot of my inability to get close with people is based on all of that. I was always an outsider.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: mother, Distance, Development, Outsider
“You see, my father was very emotionally cut off from me. He worked long hours, got home at about 7:00 and left early in the morning. I don’t ever remember my father in my entire childhood saying, 'How are you feeling?' or 'How are you doing?' My father had no interest.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Emotional Distance, Ben Stern, Childhood
“In a way, I’m in as weird a place as Charlie Sheen. He doesn’t care at all and I care too much. Where’s the middle ground?”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Charlie Sheen, caring, Middle Ground
“I never thought I’d want to be married again. I thought that dating a bunch of different women would be the way to go. Be like a bee and pollinate every flower, and who cares whose feelings get hurt. This is my time, and I’m gonna grab the spoils like Genghis Khan.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Marriage, Genghis Khan, Dating
“Sex addiction, people addiction, it’s the same thing. You’re really afraid to be on your own. Listen, how much sex do you really think you need when it comes down to it? It’s not about the sex. After my divorce, I realized, 'Oh, wow, I can go have sex.' And I was running around, picking up women. Then all of a sudden, it dawned on me that I really didn’t need that much sex. I just wanted somebody with me every minute.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Addiction, Sex Addiction, Panic, Loneliness
“That’s what an addiction to people is: attention, acclaim, validation. I think all of that is operating there. It’s desperate.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Addiction, Attention, Acclaim, Validation, Desperate
“It was really a very scary thing to me. I had never really opened up to someone. I never had conversations like that with another human being, let alone a man. And I never in a serious way thought about how I felt about anything. I was completely closed off from my feelings… I remember I started telling him stories like I was on the radio, and I’m laughing, and he goes, 'Why are you laughing? It sounds very important to me. It’s very sad, some of these things you’re saying.'”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: therapy, scary, radio
“Talking on the radio is a performance. Even though it’s pretty raw, what I do, and I do open up, it’s still a performance.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: radio, talking, Performance, Raw
“The ability to interview people and read your subject comes from my mother being very demanding of me with one thing: that I should be able to read her mood and know what she wanted. I could look in my mother’s eyes and know everything. When she was sad, when she was angry, what she was thinking. I was trained to make my mother happy.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Interviewing, Mood, mother
“I enjoy doing the radio show every day. But the neurotic attention I devote to it and the inability to get rid of that insecurity is very fatiguing for me.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Radio Show, neurotic, Fatigue, Insecurity
“In my real life, I have a hard time having a conversation with anybody.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Conversations
“I used to do impressions of all the mothers in the neighborhood. I’d get them rolling with laughter. But sometimes – and this is a terrible thing to do to a kid – my father would literally say, 'Stop! You’re going on too long. Shorten it up! Make it interesting!' In order to get my own parents’ attention, I had to tighten up the story. So I’m awfully paranoid about droning on too long.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: Impressions, comedy, Paranoid
“The biggest criticism of my interviews is that I cut people off. I think my biggest asset is that I cut people off. It sounds like a contradiction, but the fact is you can’t allow people to drone on. You are the orchestra leader. You are the one who is saying, 'My audience wants something new. I gotta keep it fresh.' I don’t want my guests to bomb.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph
Tagged: interviews, Interrupting, audience, Contradiction
“After all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Misunderstood, Genius
“After all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Misunderstood, Genius
“After all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Misunderstood, Genius
“I tell you, nothing makes a woman hotter than to be with an award-winning filmmaker.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Woman, Hot, Filmmaker
“I tell you, nothing makes a woman hotter than to be with an award-winning filmmaker.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Woman, Hot, Filmmaker
“I am the hero of the lesbian community.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Hero, Lesbian Community
“I am the hero of the lesbian community.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Hero, Lesbian Community
“We never went to ballgames. The only sport my dad liked was yelling.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Childhood, father, Dysfunctional Family, Yelling
“We never went to ballgames. The only sport my dad liked was yelling.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Childhood, father, Dysfunctional Family, Yelling
“Lesbians equals ratings.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Lesbians, Ratings
“Lesbians equals ratings.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Lesbians, Ratings
“I know I seem a little too old to be in college. But for this movie you've gotta suspend disbelief.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Suspension of Disbelief
“I know I seem a little too old to be in college. But for this movie you've gotta suspend disbelief.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Suspension of Disbelief
“I know I seem a little too old to be in college. But for this movie you've gotta suspend disbelief.”
— Howard Stern, Private Parts
Tagged: Suspension of Disbelief
“I don’t think I’ll ever be accepted by legitimate media, and I kind of like that. I’m way too honest.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Mainstream Media
“Anything you find yourself holding back, it’s probably what the audience most wants to hear.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: radio, Intimacy, Honesty, Holding Back
“There’s a certain intimacy with radio that people like. They like that there’s not a camera on them. They tend to admit more and be more open.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: radio, Intimacy
“No guy will ever admit to having a small penis. I just went on the record. I might be one of the smallest guys in the world. I had a trip to the doctor when I had an anal fissure. My asshole was a mess. I’m lying there on this doctor’s table, and my penis, I mean, it was inside itself, like a turtle’s head poking backward. It was so fuckin’ embarrassing. Who the fuck’s going to admit to something like that?”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Micropenis, asshole, Fucking, Honesty
“Pay-per-view is great because I can go on there and do exactly what I would love to do. I can fuck a sheep.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Pay-Per-View, Sheep, Fuck, Bestiality
“There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.”
— Howard Stern, Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Failure, Hatred
“This audience is thinking exactly what I’m saying.”
— Howard Stern
Tagged: Honesty, audience
“I’m the voice of honesty.”
— Howard Stern
Tagged: Honesty
“If you’re going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can’t apologize for it.”
— Howard Stern, Radio icon Howard Stern has Jackson Heights roots
Tagged: radio, Honesty, ugly, Apologies
“I used to say bad things about everyone. I was angry, quite frankly. I was an angry young man.”
— Howard Stern, Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern?
Tagged: angry, Angry Young Man
“I couldn’t have done the show I’m doing now 20 years ago. I’ve changed a lot. I’d be sort of pathetic if I’d reached this point in my life and I hadn’t. How else do you have longevity? There are so many guys who started out with me in radio, who have disappeared, because they can’t broaden their view of what entertainment should be, or get in touch with what they find to be exciting and fun and funny.”
— Howard Stern, Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern?
Tagged: maturity, radio, Entertainment
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