Barbara Walters

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

— Barbara Walters

Après ski is my favorite sport.

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and…

— Barbara Walters

At a certain point I had to work. I had to support my whole family. My father was, I guess, what we…

— Barbara Walters

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my…

— Barbara Walters

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

— 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

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from…

— 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…

— Barbara Walters

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on…

— 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

The most dominant person in my life was Jackie. I was embarrassed by her, and at the same time I loved her…

— Barbara Walters