Mike Wallace Quotes

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Every once in a while, what happens is when you suddenly realize that you've reached each other as interviewer and interviewee. All of a sudden you forget the lights, the cameras, everything else, and you're really talking to each other, with each other — but it doesn't come easy and it doesn't come often.

Mike Wallace
The Westmoreland affair, professionally and personally, was one of the most difficult times of my life. It was just devastatingly difficult because my integrity was put to question, and as a reporter, that's the single most important thing you've got.

Mike Wallace
I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

Mike Wallace
I've been talking about retiring for a long time but I'm not the retiring type. I've said before that I would retire when my toes turn up.

Mike Wallace
Because [Nixon] was an underdog, and a loser, I had to admire the courage that he showed in coming back time and again and proving to the American people that they would be wise to elect him.

Mike Wallace
When we found our audience, it was the middle of the civil rights revolution, then Vietnam and Watergate, and we simply got behind the scenes to a lot of those stories, whereas the rest of television did not.

Mike Wallace
We became, to our viewers, these are the people who tell it like it is. We could do, in effect, no wrong, so we helped set the agenda. If we did an interesting story on 60 Minutes, that was water-cooler talk the next day.

Mike Wallace
When I was a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts I thought I'd be a radio announcer, television didn't exist. The mind's eye was as good a picture, or maybe as vivid a picture, as the camera picture was and so I figured this would be a hell of an adventure.

Mike Wallace