Barbara Walters Quotations

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

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

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

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.