Barbara Walters Quotes

"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out." ~ Barbara Walters

 "The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself." ~ Barbara Walters

 "To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Don't let the bastards get you down." ~ Barbara Walters

 "politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose." ~ Barbara Walters

 "A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people." ~ Barbara Walters

 "I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met." ~ Barbara Walters

 "It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man." ~ Barbara Walters

 "If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word." ~ Barbara Walters

 "A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven." ~ Barbara Walters

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

 "The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties." ~ Barbara Walters

 "A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights." ~ Barbara Walters

 "The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition." ~ Barbara Walters

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

 "Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy" ~ Barbara Walters

 "Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis." ~ Barbara Walters

 "When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not." ~ Barbara Walters

 "The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship." ~ Barbara Walters

 "It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it." ~ Barbara Walters

 "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." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt." ~ Barbara Walters

 "A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval." ~ Barbara Walters

 "And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones." ~ Barbara Walters

 "New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still." ~ Barbara Walters

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

 "Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms." ~ Barbara Walters

 "For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth." ~ Barbara Walters

 "I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter." ~ Barbara Walters

 "Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties." ~ Barbara Walters

 "when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself." ~ Barbara Walters