Top 33 Diane Sawyer Quotes

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I’ve done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn’t know what was next.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

I’m not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don’t think.

I don’t think it’s about entertainment. I think it’s about being ourselves.

I have a contract but it’s not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It’s our ongoing conversation.

If you‘re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Great questions make great reporting.

I don’t know why I’m saying I’m brave.

I think there’s a point at which you know how you dress isn’t going to affect how much you do in life.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

People assume you can’t be shy and be on television. They’re wrong.

I’ve always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Hope changes everything, doesn’t it?

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I’m not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn’t.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

My husband has said even he doesn’t know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that’s a good one.

I like talking. I didn’t know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

People tend to vote the present tense – not the subjective.

I keep trying to perfect my mother‘s meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I’m getting closer.

I’ve always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother’s meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother’s memory through her meatloaf.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I’ve always been curious. I keep a list of people I’d love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I’ll read an article about someone I’ve never met and think, ‘I should ask him to lunch!’

American Idol, I love. I think it’s a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.