Quotes and Sayings About Interviews
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I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
-- A. Scott Berg -
My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
-- Aaron Carter -
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
-- Adam McKay -
In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
-- Adele -
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 -
A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.
-- Alan Davies -
I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.
-- Alexa Chung -
I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.
-- Alicia Vikander -
I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance.I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.
-- Andreas Deja -
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.
-- Ann Coulter -
I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
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 -
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.
-- Armand Hammer -
No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.
-- Avril Lavigne -
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
-- Barbara Walters -
The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
-- Ben Feldman -
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
-- Ben Harper -
I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.
-- Ben Kingsley -
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
-- Bernie Taupin -
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
-- Bianca Jagger -
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
-- Bjork -
The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
-- Bjork -
Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.
-- Bob Kane -
I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.
-- Bob Ross -
I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.
-- Bob Saget -
Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
-- Bryan Ferry -
No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
-- Carla Bruni -
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
-- Carson Daly
