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

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

— 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 to be the unfortunate cause of it.

— 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

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.

— 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

… when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn’t a conversation any more.

— Barbara Walters

If we could harness the destructive energy of disagreements over politics, we wouldn’t need the bomb.

— Barbara Walters