Top 90 Anderson Cooper Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I understand why people might be interested. But I just don’t talk about my personal life. It’s a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.”

— Anderson Cooper

52. “The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that’s neo-Nazis or pedophiles.”

— Anderson Cooper

53. “Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you’re lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.”

— Anderson Cooper

54. “Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself.”

— Anderson Cooper

55. “The people I admire most hadn’t really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.”

— Anderson Cooper

56. “The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.”

— Anderson Cooper

57. “I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I’m not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I’m not on my phone so much. I’m intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.”

— Anderson Cooper

58. “From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered.”

— Anderson Cooper

59. “I’d like to have kids at some point. I think I’ll have a family someday.”

— Anderson Cooper

60. “From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered. You and Daddy encouraged us to form our own opinions, and listened when we expressed them. We were not just children in your eyes; we were people who deserved respect. That was a powerful lesson.”

— Anderson Cooper

61. “The money I inherited never belonged to me.”

— Anderson Cooper

62. “You recently read me a quote by Faulkner: “The past isn’t dead, it’s not even past.” So much of our adult lives is influenced by what happened to us as children. It is all still there, the memories, the feelings, and fears, stored just beneath the surface in the hidden crannies of our cortex.”

— Anderson Cooper

63. “Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.”

— Anderson Cooper

64. “If you needed anything, all you had to do was say, ‘Mom, I need this,’ and my mom would be at my house with it,” she says, crying. “And now it’s like, if I need something, who do I call?”

— Anderson Cooper

65. “The benefit of thinking you will die at fifty is that it can spur you to accomplish a lot of things at a young age, which is what I have attempted to do, but now the prospect of living longer makes me uncertain about the plans I’ve made.”

— Anderson Cooper

66. “Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. Illness grabs the soul. You plunge in and out of hope, fearing you will never recover. All that I have been, all that I am, all that I might become no longer exist. I am alone. Nothing can distract from the truth of this finality. How.”

— Anderson Cooper

67. “Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.”

— Anderson Cooper

68. “I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.”

— Anderson Cooper

69. “Stop this dwelling on fantasy tragedies and disasters occurring unexpectedly. It is time wasted and leads to a dead end, such pursuits sap and waste energy. You tend to worry much too much over bad things occurring, events that may never happen. You can do this if you put your mind to it. Whenever those thoughts pop up, just give them a swift kick in the ass.”

— Anderson Cooper

70. “I think if you’ve suffered, if you’ve experienced loss, you’re probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.”

— Anderson Cooper

71. “I’ve always loved reporting from the field most of all. There’s something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that’s always appealed to me. I think there’s great value to bearing witness to these events as they’re actually happening.”

— Anderson Cooper

72. “Inside, however, in our core, past the aches, pains and creaking joints of age, youth still resides. Keep that in mind. As.”

— Anderson Cooper

73. “I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.”

— Anderson Cooper

74. “He was forceful, domineering, and supremely sure of himself. When you have low self-esteem, as I did, those qualities are attractive.”

— Anderson Cooper

75. “When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we’re going to cover it in a way that’s non-partisan, that’s not left or right.”

— Anderson Cooper

76. “Don’t fall in love with a bonobo, because it’s gonna die.”

— Anderson Cooper

77. “New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.”

— Anderson Cooper

78. “I’m always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.”

— Anderson Cooper

79. “We ike to think we are our own people, but sometimes it seems we are just playing out a script that was imprinted in us along ago.”

— Anderson Cooper

80. “Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else’s expense.”

— Anderson Cooper

81. “If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they’re more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.”

— Anderson Cooper

82. “Does one ever know what another person is really like, even someone very close to us? Do we know what we are like ourselves? What we are today may not be what we are tomorrow.”

— Anderson Cooper

83. “Hard to imagine that the man who made the Gilded Age according to his whims and who died on the cusp of the twentieth century had a great-grandfather born the same year as the Salem witch trials, but such are the long spans of generations.”

— Anderson Cooper

84. “I began going through dozens of boxes stored away in her apartment and her art studio. They were filled with journals, and documents, and letters. She saved everything. Handwritten notes from her aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and schoolbooks my grandfather Reginald Vanderbilt doodled in as a child. I found old wills and financial records, and as I read the contents of these files stained by time and mold, I began to hear the voices of those people I never knew.”

— Anderson Cooper

85. “Gilded sin is so much more interesting than ragged sin,” she reflected. “Scandal dressed in ermine and purple is much more salacious than scandal in overalls or a kitchen apron.”

— Anderson Cooper

86. “This is the story of the extraordinary rise and epic fall of the Vanderbilt dynasty. This is the story of the greatest American fortune ever squandered.”

— Anderson Cooper

87. “The Vanderbilt story somehow manages to be both unique and also, deeply, universally American.”

— Anderson Cooper

88. “Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this. VIRGIL.”

— Anderson Cooper

89. “A few central myths appear again and again in Americans’ popular imagination: that success is available to anyone who is willing to work hard, for example, and that success is worthier of celebration if it is achieved without help.”

— Anderson Cooper

90. “They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”

— Anderson Cooper

91. “The ideology of New York City was, is, and probably always will be profit.”

— Anderson Cooper