Quotes About Interviews

#1. President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.

Richard Engel

#2. I don't really like doing interviews.

Sean Young

#3. When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

Halsey

#4. I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

Jaden Smith

#5. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.

Carla Harris

#6. The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.

Dean Wareham

#7. I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Roger Ebert

#8. My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

Marco Rubio

#9. I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.

Alan Shearer

#10. I decided I would never do interviews again.

Danielle Steel

#11. People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

Stacie Orrico

#12. Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.

Bill Maher

#13. I've been going through a lot of ... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.

Bradford Cox

#14. There should be exit interviews for dating. Just a brief evaluation of the highlights and challenges of the relationship, and maybe a few questions like "So what exactly was it that motivated you to dump me?

Devan Sipher

#15. I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

Jack White

#16. My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Errol Morris

#17. Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

Conan O'Brien

#18. I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Nick Cave

#19. Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

Gary Cohn

#20. Someone that immediately touchy was probably a servant. "How did you end up on the Titanic?" Pinky asked. She tried not to make her voice hurried, but she couldn't waste time if she was going to get more interviews before Smith and his crowd caught her.

Kate Alcott

#21. Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

David Duchovny

#22. You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

Frank Black

#23. I do not want to talk about it.

Don DeLillo

#24. I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

Kathy Reichs

#25. People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

Victoria Wood

#26. All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

Shameik Moore

#27. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly refuses to show the Muslim cartoons on The O'Reilly Factor, saying he doesn't want to offend anyone's religion. Someone should tell him those endless interviews with prostitutes from the Bunny Ranch and porn stars aren't high on Christians' list of enjoyable viewing either.

Ann Coulter

#28. I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Ian MacKaye

#29. Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.

Emily Dickinson

#30. People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

Joanna Newsom

#31. I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

Bruce Forsyth

#32. I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.

Adhir Kalyan

#33. I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

Cybill Shepherd

#34. To me, it seems like both 'Brief Interviews' and 'The Office' deal with characters that see themselves differently than the world sees them.

John Krasinski

#35. I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

Shia Labeouf

#36. I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

Ken Burns

#37. Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

Sam Riley

#38. Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

Moby

#39. One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Bernie Taupin

#40. God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

Jason Isaacs

#41. When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

Rick Nielsen

#42. I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.

Siegfried Woldhek

#43. I just wanna perform, I wanna get back on the scene, I wanna do all the festivals and stuff like that. I don't necessarily want to do all the bullshit that comes with it, like tons and tons of interviews, unnecessary things and all that.

Lady Sovereign

#44. Experts tell us that the global economy will worsen while household appliances will get smarter. By the time your child is twenty-one years old and ready to enter the workforce, all of her job interviews will be conducted by Roombas.

Rick Chillot

#45. I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever.

Robert Pattinson

#46. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

Emmett Shear

#47. We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.

Matt Taibbi

#48. There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Robert Teeter

#49. Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Susan Reynolds

#50. I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Naguib Mahfouz

#51. I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

John Travolta

#52. I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

Julia Sweeney

#53. Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Jack Nicholson

#54. I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality ... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.

Scarlett Johansson

#55. Paris rubbed his forehead against his, running his hands through Roan's hair, and said, 'How about we come back here
and exchange notes once we're done with the interviews? Take a long lunch.'

'Only exchange notes?'

'No one said we can't exchange notes in bed.

Andrea Speed

#56. Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Ariel Pink

#57. I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

Mark Cuban

#58. A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

Frederick Lenz

#59. That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.

Hans Matheson

#60. For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

Jarvis Cocker

#61. I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

Garry Shandling

#62. Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.

Andrew Marr

#63. When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

Jack Johnson

#64. Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Jilly Cooper

#65. When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

Shonda Rhimes

#66. I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#67. I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.

Jerry Perenchio

#68. I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

Geoff Hoon

#69. If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.

Joell Ortiz

#70. I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.

Tim Rice

#71. I'd rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

Jeff Bezos

#72. I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

Will Oldham

#73. Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

Steve Jobs

#74. I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.

Marcel Dionne

#75. Can't we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Miles Anthony Smith

#76. My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

Imelda Marcos

#77. For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

Moby

#78. A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Thomas Frank

#79. People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#80. It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about.

Kristen Stewart

#81. In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

Aimee Mullins

#82. Q: Why do you blog?
A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.

Ophelia Benson

#83. Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

Walter Cronkite

#84. 'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.

Jonathan Kozol

#85. When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

Ian Watson

#86. I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

Parker Stevenson

#87. Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.

Hannah Murray

#88. Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?

Monica Ali

#89. Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

Fiona Apple

#90. I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

Octavia Spencer

#91. If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

#92. I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

David Gilmour

#93. A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

Joyce Carol Oates

#94. I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

Aaron Rose

#95. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

Miles Anthony Smith

#96. If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that.

John Kasich

#97. When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

Doris Lessing

#98. When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

Meek Mill

#99. When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.

Wale

#100. I've been compared to Inspector Clouseau ... or has he been compared to me?

I.B. Nosey