Interviews famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
-- Charlie Rose -
When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.
-- Chester Brown -
The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview
-- China Mieville -
I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.
-- Chris Ducker -
It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!
-- Christopher Parker -
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
-- Daisy Fuentes -
When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
-- Damon Lindelof -
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 -
He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.
-- David E. Hoffman -
If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
-- David E. Kelley -
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
-- Davy Jones -
I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.
-- Diana Vreeland -
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
-- Diane Sawyer -
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 -
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
-- Dorothy Kilgallen -
Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.
-- Dree Hemingway -
In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
-- Edward G. Robinson -
Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
-- Eli Wallach -
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 -
The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
-- Erin Moran -
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
-- Errol Morris -
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 -
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
-- Francesca Annis -
Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product
-- Frank Bettger -
The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
-- Freddie Mercury -
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.
-- Gary Larson -
I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.
-- George Lopez -
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.
-- Gilbert Harding -
Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.
-- Gina Gogean -
Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.
-- Giovanna Cau -
It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.
-- Giuliana Rancic -
But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist
-- Glenn Danzig -
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
-- Grace Jones -
Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.
-- Graham Chapman -
I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.
-- Graham Kennedy -
All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
-- Graham Norton -
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.
-- Greta Van Susteren -
So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
-- Hans Blix -
Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
-- Harvey Keitel -
I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
-- Heath Ledger -
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
-- Imelda Marcos -
Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
-- Jack Gleeson -
When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
-- Jack Johnson -
I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
-- Jackie Cooper -
Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
-- James Blunt -
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.
-- James D. Watson -
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
-- James Ellroy -
I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.
-- Jamie Dornan -
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
-- Jason Clarke -
John Kerry reportedly flew in his private hairdresser before his "Meet the Press" interview for a total cost of $1,000. That's $1,000 for a haircut, which sounds like a lot, but have you seen the size of Kerry's head.
-- Jay Leno -
Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.
-- Jeb Bush -
To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions
-- Jeb Bush -
I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
-- Jenna Bush -
I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.
-- Jeremy Northam -
People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.
-- Jesse Eisenberg -
I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.
-- Jim Garrison -
In a new interview, the president discussed the upcoming election. He said that Hillary Clinton is going to do great as a presidential candidate. When asked how Biden would do, Obama said, 'Hillary's going to do great.'
-- Jimmy Fallon -
I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.
-- Joe Pantoliano -
In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes.
-- John Flansburgh -
It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
-- John Hawkes -
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
-- John Hurt -
I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.
-- John Lydon -
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
-- John Mayer
