48 Quotes by Charlie Rose

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

I think the long interview has an important life.

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.