Interviews Quotes

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

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

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

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.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

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

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

If a person hides the truth or says something fake on variety shows or interviews, it will still be found out no matter how careful they are.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

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

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

The media and the interviews are great, but that does not help me make a call on the field. To me, I've got to work the game, and I've got to be great at it.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

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.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

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

I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum.

I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

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.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.

Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

The biggest benefit of doing an interview podcast is the relationships you build.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

I have to remember to not criticize other networks for other shows when I'm doing interviews because some day I'm going to be going to them, looking for a job, I'm assuming.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.