Barbara Walters

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.