Top 25 Barbara Walters Quotes

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

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

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

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

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

Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.

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

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.

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 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.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.

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

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.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.

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.

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.

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

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.

When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.

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.

I didn’t have a very religious family.

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

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.