My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

- Jane Pauley

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

- Jane Pauley

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.

- Jane Pauley

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

- Jane Pauley

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

- Jane Pauley

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.

- Jane Pauley

What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'

- Jane Pauley

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

- Jane Pauley

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

- Jane Pauley

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

- Jane Pauley

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- Jane Pauley

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.

- Jane Pauley

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

- Jane Pauley

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

- Jane Pauley

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

- Jane Pauley

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

- Jane Pauley

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

- Jane Pauley

I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!

- Jane Pauley

I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.

- Jane Pauley

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

- Jane Pauley