Mike Wallace Quotations | Page 2

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

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

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.

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

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

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

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

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?

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

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.'