Top 50 Andy Cohen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m happy to be everybody’s gay best friend.”

— Andy Cohen

2. “I work out at Will Space four times a week. It’s a private training gym. It’s owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It’s every kind of cross-training you can do.”

— Andy Cohen

3. “I’m a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.”

— Andy Cohen

4. “Ultimately, it’s not my job to judge the ‘Housewives’ – we don’t editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.”

— Andy Cohen

5. “I am a late discoverer of ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry – happy, emotional tears. I just love it.”

— Andy Cohen

6. “I would like a boyfriend. I’m a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I’m looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.”

— Andy Cohen

7. “I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.”

— Andy Cohen

8. “In the case of ‘The Housewives,’ I call the ‘Housewives’ sociology of the rich. I think it’s just fun to watch. It’s guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It’s like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.”

— Andy Cohen

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9. “St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don’t see other places – and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There’s a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.”

— Andy Cohen

10. “I’m an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.”

— Andy Cohen

11. “Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed – simultaneously – to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.”

— Andy Cohen

12. “I love Jimmy Fallon; he’s always a great time.”

— Andy Cohen

13. “McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.”

— Andy Cohen

14. “The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it’s cool.”

— Andy Cohen

15. “Just go with your gut and communicate.”

— Andy Cohen

16. “I’m big on being positive. I’m generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.”

— Andy Cohen

17. “Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.”

— Andy Cohen

18. “I am so proud of ‘Top Chef’ – I think it’s got great cred.”

— Andy Cohen

19. “You know, ‘Project Runway’ was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with it. We loved that show, and we loved the stories that it brought to Bravo and the creativity. And it was a magic five seasons.”

— Andy Cohen

20. “When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn’t try to be on air. That’s when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.”

— Andy Cohen

21. “I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It’s amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you’re not near Central Park, there’s nowhere to go, but there’s a whole ecosystem happening down here.”

— Andy Cohen

22. “I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.”

— Andy Cohen

23. “Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, ‘Oh yes, I’m hosting my own show.’”

— Andy Cohen

24. “Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!”

— Andy Cohen

25. “I’ve been gay since the day I was born.”

— Andy Cohen

26. “Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.”

— Andy Cohen

27. “I absolutely love low-key restaurants.”

— Andy Cohen

28. “I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network’s chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about ‘Battle of the Network Reality Stars,’ the first show I took on as head of current programming.”

— Andy Cohen

29. “Sometimes, the only option is to say you’re sorry, even if you have no idea what someone is talking about.”

— Andy Cohen

30. “I haven’t fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I’m constantly screening ‘Top Chef,’ ‘Housewives,’ and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.”

— Andy Cohen

31. “If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.”

— Andy Cohen

32. “I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.”

— Andy Cohen

33. “I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a ‘Housewives’ whisperer and talk-show host.”

— Andy Cohen

34. “I think when you’re live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I’m thinking.”

— Andy Cohen

35. “I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.”

— Andy Cohen

36. “I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn’t have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry.”

— Andy Cohen

37. “Sometimes the name is funnier than the game itself...”

— Andy Cohen

38. “The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I’m having fun, I really don’t care what the job title is.”

— Andy Cohen

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39. “It’s so mental how I looked in the ’90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing – it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.”

— Andy Cohen

40. “Someday we will all be dead and you will be praying for a Saturday night at Marie’s with the gang.”

— Andy Cohen

41. “I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn’t been given the chance to be on TV.”

— Andy Cohen

42. “I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it’s a magical city – it’s big, sexy and very ‘cosmo’ with a small-town feel.”

— Andy Cohen

43. “When in doubt, I go to the phones a lot because it adds a new dimension and a new energy. It kind of takes me out of the equation if I feel like I irritated them or they aren’t into the experience.”

— Andy Cohen

44. “I didn’t have a role model when I was younger.”

— Andy Cohen

45. “I’ve really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I’ve just learned to own it though.”

— Andy Cohen

46. “There’s nothing I don’t love about ‘Mad Men.’”

— Andy Cohen

47. “I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.”

— Andy Cohen

48. “TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.”

— Andy Cohen

49. “Candy Crowley’s hair is PERFECT!!”

— Andy Cohen

50. “I’ve been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won – for ‘Top Chef’ – the only time I didn’t go.”

— Andy Cohen