Words matter. These are the best Barbara Walters Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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.
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.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
I didn’t have a very religious family.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it’s also full of fourth-rate readers.
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.
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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.
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.
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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.
The sports page records people’s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man’s failures.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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.
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.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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.
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.
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.
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
