Mike Wallace Quotes

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Mike Wallace

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 9, 1918

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

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 did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

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 cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

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

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

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

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Mike Wallace