Mike Wallace Quotes

• In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we’d introduced on ‘Night Beat.’ But that proved easier said than done.

  Mike Wallace

  Topics in English Proverbs

• If there’s anything that’s important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

  Mike Wallace

• I’m nearing the end of the road and still learning.

  Mike Wallace

• I’m just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

  Mike Wallace

• I’m a reporter; you can’t subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don’t answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

  Mike Wallace

• 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?

  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 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.

  Mike Wallace

• I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

  Mike Wallace

• I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

  Mike Wallace

• I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn’t a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials – and I could do a hell of a commercial.

  Mike Wallace

• I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.

  Mike Wallace

• 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.’

  Mike Wallace

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

  Mike Wallace

• I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because – and that’s a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

  Mike Wallace

• I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can’t see as well. I now have – this has stopped me from smoking – a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don’t like getting old.

  Mike Wallace

• I feel fulfilled when we’ve revealed a person.

  Mike Wallace

• I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.

  Mike Wallace

• I don’t think I have the face – may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

  Mike Wallace

• I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn’t know my kids as well as I should have.

  Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace (52)

Birth:	9th May, 1918
Death:	7th April, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Anchor, Journalist

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