Quotes by Barbara Walters

About Barbara Walters:

Barbara Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 20/20, co-anchored the ABC Evening News, and was a contributor to ABC News.
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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.

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

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

Barbara Walters

I didn't have a very religious family.

Barbara Walters

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Barbara Walters

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.

Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

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...

Barbara Walters

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.

Barbara Walters

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.

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

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

Barbara Walters

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

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

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

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Barbara Walters

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

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

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

Barbara Walters

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Barbara Walters

Author Bio

  • NameBarbara Walters
  • DescriptionAmerican broadcast journalist, author, and television personality
  • BornSeptember 25, 1929
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Television Presenter; Writer; News Presenter