Charlie Rose Quotes

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

I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.

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.

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

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

Knowing a lot ... is a springboard to creativity.

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

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.

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.

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.

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

The question is just as important as the answer.

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

I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people ... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

My parents had a great work ethic.