Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
—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
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
—Barbara Walters
Topics: Feelings
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters
Topics: Gossip
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
Topics: Media
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
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
—Barbara Walters
Topics: Words, Intelligence
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
Topics: Injury
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