121 Quotes by Mike Wallace

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

These kids are pure, and their emotions are real, ... My kids do anything we ask them to do.

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

You want to put a man at ease.

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'

All of the music is beautiful in its own way, and a lot of it is at completely opposite ends of the spectrum.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.