Charlie Rose Quotations

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

The question is just as important as the answer.

I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.