Explore Quotes by Barbara Walters

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

I didn't have a very religious family.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.