Charlie Rose Quotes

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“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

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“The question is just as important as the answer.”

— Charlie Rose

“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

“My parents had a great work ethic.”

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

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

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

— Charlie Rose

“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

“Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.”

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“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

“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.”

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“I think the long interview has an important life.”

— Charlie Rose

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

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“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

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

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

— Charlie Rose

“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

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

— Charlie Rose