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

• You’re not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

  Mike Wallace

• You want to put a man at ease.

  Mike Wallace

• You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for ’60 Minutes’ on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

  Mike Wallace

• Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was – I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.

  Mike Wallace

• When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

  Mike Wallace

• When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was – everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

  Mike Wallace

• What’s an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn’t been – he hadn’t been willing to talk to you before. You’ve sent him letters, and you’ve tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question – that’s an ambush?

  Mike Wallace

• We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.

  Mike Wallace

• We used to sit around and chortle, ‘Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he’s doing. Let’s stick it to him!’ It’s as simple as that, I swear.

  Mike Wallace

• To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

  Mike Wallace

• There’s nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you’re going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

  Mike Wallace

• There’s not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on ’60 Minutes’ – not a better job.

  Mike Wallace

• The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.

  Mike Wallace

• Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They’ll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that’s why we’re at number 16 or 14 or whatever.

  Mike Wallace

• Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

  Mike Wallace

• My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

• Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

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• Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

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• It’s astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That’s why a reporter’s job, as you know, is such a joy.

  Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace (52)

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

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