Quotes About Charlie Rose

#1. I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

Chris Rock

#2. In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

Jason Calacanis

#3. You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed ... You need it.
Jo speaking to Charlie Rose re: writing

J.K. Rowling

#4. I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

Brian Grazer

#5. Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

Jay Chiat

#6. I watch news from the minute I wake up till 11. Then I switch to Charlie Rose. Fox News all the way.

Brigid Berlin

#7. If you're going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? (Other than a Charlie Rose marathon on PBS?) I think not. When my time comes I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know.

Joan Rivers

#8. I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

Rand Paul

#9. Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

Jack Dorsey

#10. I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

Woody Allen

#11. I can wait two years, she thought, turning the rose in her hand. I can wait two years for him, longer if need be. If he would ever love me, I'd wait my entire life.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#12. The question is just as important as the answer.

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

#16. It is of no consequence what people think of you. What matters is what you think of them.

Gore Vidal

#17. I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Milton Friedman

#18. Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

Tom Franklin

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

Charlie Rose

#20. I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

Charlie Rose

#21. 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.

Charlie Rose

#22. Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Paul Newman

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

Charlie Rose

#24. 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.

Charlie Rose

#25. To be too knowing is a downfall.

Laura Linney

#26. The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.

Charlie Munger

#27. 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.

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

#29. Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

#31. ... but Charlie had seen love and prise flare in the brown eyes, burning away every trace of sadness and timidity. Rose Petch, she knew, would never abandon her child the way Charlie's mother had abandoned her. ... Charlie stood, trembling, torn nearly in two by jealousy and longing ...

Ellen Renner

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

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

#34. 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.

Charlie Rose

#35. I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

Walter Payton

#36. I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

Nick Enright

#37. 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.

Charlie Rose

#38. At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

Charlie Rose

#39. 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.

Charlie Rose

#40. When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

#42. Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

Nora Ephron

#43. There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Charlie Rose

#44. I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.

Charlie Rose

#45. Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.

Charlie Rose

#46. I think the long interview has an important life.

Charlie Rose

#47. 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.

Charlie Rose

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

Charlie Rose

#49. Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn't be as good for anyone.

Charlie Rose

#50. Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.

Charlie Rose

#51. I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

Meryl Streep

#52. It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on,

Charlie Sheen

#53. There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.

Charlie Rose

#54. 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.

Charlie Rose

#55. 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.

Charlie Rose

#56. My parents had a great work ethic.

Charlie Rose

#57. 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.

Charlie Rose

#58. Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.

Charlie Huston