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

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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

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

— Mike Wallace

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I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person. ↗

— Mike Wallace

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

— Mike Wallace

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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