Theory Quotes by 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

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

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

— 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

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

— Barbara Walters

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…

— Barbara Walters

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Barbara Walters

I was trying to do everything I possibly could,up until this morning, when I was betrayed, to protect her. We gave her time to…

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters