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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. "

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" 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

Walk

Want

Phone

" 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? "

Mike Wallace

Young

Work

" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "

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

" The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. "

" 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

Going

Become

" 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.' "

Mike Wallace

World

People

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse. "

" I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.' "

" All I'm armed with is research. "

Mike Wallace

Research

Armed

" I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. "

" To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was. "

" As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. "

Mike Wallace

Eyes

Birthday

" You want to put a man at ease. "

" Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. "

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

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

" We used to sit around and chortle, 'Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he's doing. Let's stick it to him!' It's as simple as that, I swear. "

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

" I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "