Happy Birthday: Matt Lauer

Matt Lauer

Born: December 30, 1957 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to: Annette Roque (3 October 1998 – present) (3 children)

(2013) I don’t find anything comes out of getting in someone’s face during an interview and screaming… When you have a sense that emotions are being used to manipulate, you have to jump in and cut it off. But when there’s real, honest emotion coming out, like when Tom Cruise got worked up over his belief system on antidepressant drugs, you let that go because there’s no replacing that reality. If you were to cut that off, you’d be doing your viewers a disservice. My job was to stay out of the way.

(2013) I’ve always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

(2013) Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled. One or two times you can say, “They don’t know what they’re talking about. They don’t know talent when they see it.” After the fifth time, if you don’t look in the mirror and ask yourself some really serious questions about whether you’re cut out to be in this business, you’re an idiot.

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