Quotes by Willie Geist

It doesnt matter if youre famous or infamous. All that matters is youre a celebrity.

Watching CSI: Miami is like watching Teen Jeopardy! or doing the crossword puzzle in People magazine. It makes you feel smart even when youre not.

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

I cant say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants.

Landing on Morning Joe wasnt a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

I think theres something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughters first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazers a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesnt want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when Id answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, Hi, Bill! Thats when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

My dad is so unique in what he does. Its not like Im taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope Ive carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.