Interviewers Quotes:

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

- Muriel Spark

source: Source: tobylitt.wordpress.com

topic: Interviews, Interviewers, Depends

I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: "Find Out Who You Are and Live That Truth". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2010.

topic: Entertainers, Interviewers

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

- Steve Cosson

topic: Ideas, Mind, Something New, Interviewers, New Ideas

An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

- Jay Duplass

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Party, Giving, Interviews, Interviewers

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

- Chris Hardwick

topic: Long, Answers, Care, Interviewers

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

- Clare Balding

topic: Dark, Despair, Depth, Interviewers

You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I can't even think of dying. I fly all over the world, drive everywhere, and when I get home, I find interviewers and photographers and TV shows waiting for me. No wonder I'm so busy.

- Yayoi Kusama

source: Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

topic: Artistic Life, Interviewers

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

- Paula Poundstone

topic: Thinking, Community, Library, Demure, Interviewers

Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

- Marcus Buckingham

topic: Passion, Data, People, Interviewers

Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: People, Proud, Matter, Interviewers

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

- Chetan Bhagat

topic: Trying, Doe, Answers, Interviewers

Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.714, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Cheer, Book, Lists, Interviewers

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

- Missy Elliot

source: "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, Nice, Trying, Beautiful Day, Interviewers

An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.

- Glenda Gilmore

topic: Jewels, Together, Sensitive, Interviewers

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

- Frank Zappa

topic: Hair, Long, Doe, Interviewers, Long Hair

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

- Michael Chabon

source: Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

topic: Dream, New York, Book, Interviewers, Houdini

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

- Marcus Buckingham

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Interviewers

The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

- Barack Obama

source: "We Can Still Make a Difference". Interview with Jess Cagle, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 29, 2014.

topic: Teenager, Son, Irritation, Previous Generations, Interviewers

I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'

- Robert Pattinson

topic: Thinking, Vampire, Interviews, Interviewers

Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters.

- Mark Joyner

topic: Heathers, Mind, Razors, Interviewers

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

- David Hyde Pierce

topic: Funny, Dog, Years, Interviewers

Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'

- John Wooden

topic: Home, Practice, Wife, Interviewers

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

- Dhani Harrison

topic: Father, Betrayed, Feels, Interviewers, Very Cool

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Interviewers, He Wants Me

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

- Colin Powell

topic: Thinking, Black, Stories, Interviewers

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

- Orson Welles

topic: Art, Addiction, Interviews, Interviewers, Triads

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Believe, Atheism, Want, Interviewers, Sagan

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

- Elmore Leonard

topic: Writing, Narrative, Jazz, Interviewers

Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.

- Mary Doria Russell

topic: Stress, Writing, Bending, Interviewers, Writing Nonfiction

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Thinking, Practice, Names, Interviewers

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

- Cecily von Ziegesar

topic: Thinking, Bass, Should, Interviewers

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

- Edward Gorey

topic: Regret, Interviewers

Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

- Brian Greene

topic: Moving, Kids, Talking, Interviewers, Decorum

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

- Nawal El Saadawi

topic: Country, Believe, Thinking, Interviewers

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

- Bono

source: "Relief Pitcher". Interview with Susan Dominus, archive.nytimes.com.

topic: Confused, Thinking, Talking, Interviewers

I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

- Robert Pattinson

topic: Doors, Careers, Giving, Interviewers

Interviewer: "What keeps you grounded?" Bieber: "Gravity." Interviewer: "What's up, Justin?" Bieber: "The sky, man."

- Justin Bieber

topic: Cocky, Men, Sky, Interviewers

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

- Hubert Green

topic: Golf, Experts, Want, Interviewers

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

- Sarah Rees Brennan

topic: Voice, Television, Hobbies, Interviewers, Freestyle

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

- Michael Silverblatt

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Jobs, Knowing, Preparation, Interviewers

I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

- Chuck Klosterman

source: Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

topic: Artist, Trying, Able, Interviewers

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

- Marilyn Monroe

source: Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

topic: Stars, Gone, Agents, Layout, Interviewers

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

- Emo Philips

source: Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

topic: Cutting, Nuts, Strange, Interviewers

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

- Vladimir Nabokov

topic: Life, Giants, Ill Tempered, Interviewers

When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

- Missy Elliot

source: "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

topic: Mother, Father, Sleep, Interviewers

News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

- George Stroumboulopoulos

source: "Canadian host George Stroumboulopoulos brings talk show to CNN". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, uk.reuters.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Different, Needs, News, Interviewers, Different Life

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

- Joseph McCarthy

topic: Book, Thinking, Answers, Interviewers

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

- Jay Leno

topic: Teacher, Thank God, Would Be, Interviewers

I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.

- Eleanor Catton

source: "Eleanor Catton: 'Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, October 16, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Luck, Interviewers

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

- Klaus Schulze

source: Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

topic: Thinking, Ask Me, Interviewers

An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.

- Martin Scorsese

topic: Collaboration, Firsts, Chance, Interviewers