“I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.” WritingIdeasDoneLostIllnessInterviews Author:Tony Judt
“What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.” InterviewsArticlesSomewhere ElseFurious Author:Erykah Badu
“Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.” PeopleIfsHappensAsksWishWonderComedyInfluenceMalesBoringAsk MeInterviews Author:Cameron Esposito
“And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.” KnowsFirstsHumansWellsMeanStillsTodayEmotionalAdultsInterviewsCried Author:Melanie Martinez
“Once, during an interview in front of my wife, I was asked, "Are you one of those actors who brings your character home? Do you stay in character?" I said, "No, not really. I don't do that," and she started laughing. I asked her why. She said, "Well, you might think you don't bring characters home, but you do." So, while I don't feel like a character is lingering, it probably is.” ThinkingFeelsWellsSaidCharacterHomeMightActorsLaughingWifeFrontsMy WifeInterviewsLingering Author:Jeff Bridges
“Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are. I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.” PeopleIfsGivingAbleStuffHeardInspireGratitudeScaredInterviews Author:Mike Posner
“[MTV] just wanted a regular person that knew a decent amount about music.I'm so used to doing solitary interviews. You have some control - it's quiet, it's just you with your tape recorder and the person. Then when I was in front of the camera, I broke out in hives, which I continued to do well after I got the job.” WellsPersonsWantedJobsUsedFrontsAmountQuietCamerasBrokeInterviewsDecentTapeSolitaryMtvRecordersHives Author:Jancee Dunn
“I would get adult acne when it was somebody really famous I had to interview, so sometimes I would have to look straight at the camera because I couldn't look sideways or profile, because it would show.” LooksSometimesShowsAdultsCamerasInterviewsProfileSidewaysAcne Author:Jancee Dunn
“I'm trying to think of who was really unpleasant or just not in the mood for talking. We had on Thurston Moore and he was just not feeling it that day, so it was difficult. Your difficult interview is out there for the world.” ThinkingWorldTryingFeelingsDifficultTalkingMoodInterviews Author:Jancee Dunn
“I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview a female celebrity, I'd just go in and interview them like I'd interview any human being and talk about the things that interested me. And you'd come back, and you'd file your copy. And then my editor would read through my copy and go, why haven't you asked them if they want kids? And I'd be like, well, I don't know, I interviewed Aerosmith last week. And I didn't ask them that.” IfsKnowsWantHumansWellsFactsKidsLastsAsksHuman BeingsWeekHavensFemaleMagazinesJournalistInterviewsCopiesEditorsFilesAerosmith Author:Caitlin Moran
“I was doing interviews and a question came up about whether I had anything I was addicted to. I said 'I actually have an addiction to eye drops.' And like, as I was on the phone I'd had my third - in the hour! - dose. I had them with me all the time.” SaidEyeHoursThirdsAddictionPhonesInterviewsDose Author:Jennifer Aniston
“When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.” GamesStudyWestRapInterviewsCoastWest Coast Author:Tyga
“I don't really do too many interviews - I like creating and being visual, shooting videos and movies. I just like showcasing my skill and challenging myself.” ChallengesSkillsCreatingVideoShootingInterviewsVisualsChallenging Myself Author:Tyga
“I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.” DonePastLinesCuttingInterviewsOutrageousOf Context Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“I think that is just about as dishonest as a person giving a bad interview. I despise people like that; they don't get two tries. It's all just sensation. It is always bullshit.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingPersonsTwoInterviewsSensationsDespiseBullshit Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing.” MeanStatesRememberMemoriesActingClintonInterviewsReportsSecretaryFbiExitConcussions Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.” SaidStatesUseBigsRememberMemoriesSawsNeededPeriodsConcernedClintonGlassesInterviewsPrintWeekendSecretaryMemorialCiaFbiExitMemorial DayMagnifyingNo MemoryConcussionsMagnifying GlassMemorial Day Weekend Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I was in the Justice Department for three years. I remember my entry briefing by the CIA. I can tell the date of it. I remember my exit interview from the CIA. And I remember that "C" in parentheses meant confidential.” YearsI CanRememberThreeJusticeInterviewsDepartmentThree YearsCiaExitEntryConfidentialBriefingParentheses Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.” GivingStillsBookEndsReadingProcessSourceGiving UpFindingsResearchOriginalsFundamentalsPhotographInterviewsReading BooksPreciseNever Giving UpPromotingDianaLove Of Reading Author:Lisa Immordino Vreeland
“I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."” PeopleKnowsMenSaidYoungRoomsLove YouOfficeSmartExcitedFranceJournalistInterviewsYoung WomenOld PeopleReally SmartMarvinLove You So Much Author:Meryl Streep
“I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.” PeopleWorldMindTwoPlaySeemsSportsThese DaysInterviewsTwo Minds Author:Frank Gehry
“I can't even count how many times I did interviews with people and they asked me if I had a boyfriend. Keep in mind that I was, I guess, mild to moderately famous from ages 6 to 13. Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then.” PeopleIfsMindI CanAgeCoursesInterviewsCamps Author:Mara Wilson
“It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.” AsksInterviewsDocumentariesSnowden Author:Melissa Leo
“There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.” PeopleTryingLooksDoeArtistWatchesInspireVideoInterviewsLook Up Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.” PlayActorsSpeakTermRolesNiceEnglandBackgroundsFranceGermanyInterviews Author:Richard Sammel
“I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.” PeopleThinkingNeedsJobsTermInterestMediaConflictAskingJournalistInterviewsBetter JobsConflict Of Interest Author:Michael F. Jacobson
“Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."” LastsCommittedInterviews Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.” ThinkingGivingAnimalTelevisionInterviewsAustralianGiving In Author:Eric Idle
“The FBI released its report on [Hillary] Clinton's emails. It exonerated her almost completely, but a few days later Matt Lauer obliviously spent a full third of his interview with Clinton on the emails anyway. Lauer was widely pilloried for this.” ThirdsClintonInterviewsReportsEmailFbi Author:Kevin Drum
“When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.” PersonsInterviewsNotify Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.” WantMindProblemWantedFacesOpportunityCausesMediaRacismWho I AmInterviewsBigotryDefectsFace To Face Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do the same thing they think works over and over again." I had an epiphany and called my manager and started a creed with my producers. I promised we'd do whatever was best for the song and the album - no ego would get in the way.” PeopleThinkingWaySaidSeemsSongReadingFailingEgoAlbumsProducersMagazinesManagersInterviewsBrownCreedsEpiphanyTime Magazine Author:Michael Buble
“Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.” PeopleKindLongStatesGovernmentTogetherProcessChallengesUnitedUnited StatesInformationSourcePeriodsRemainsFolksIraqInterviewsSyriaRefugeeUnlikelyRobustState GovernmentLong Periods Of TimeUnited States GovernmentBiometrics Author:James Comey
“I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.” PeopleThinkingFeelsEnoughForgetKeysComfortableInterviewsAllowing Author:Brian McGinn
“I won't necessarily make new music because when you make a record there are these great expectations on the side of the record company who are going to produce your record, promoters that are going to do your shows. They want you to do interviews, they want you to play shows. I mean, they want it to be a campaign.” WantMeanPlayShowsSidesCompanyRecordsProduceMusic IsExpectationsCampaignsInterviewsRecord CompaniesNew MusicGreat ExpectationsPromoters Author:Black Francis
“I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.” WorldKindI CanPassionProcessMy OwnEvolutionElementsHappeningsWho You AreConstantInterviewsBubblesSincerelyThought ProcessDior Author:Charlize Theron
“I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's guest and he was on the panel. But this was before the Snowden stuff happened. I didn't have the opportunity to meet him in preparation for the movie, unfortunately, for various reasons. But I was able to dive into the main articles he's written, and interviews with him, and just the function that the character serves in the movie, that was enough for me.” RealReasonEnoughCharacterShowsAbleOpportunityStuffWrittenHappenedMetsFunctionBillsVariousPreparationInterviewsArticlesGuestsSnowden Author:Zachary Quinto
“When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.” WayFirstsLongHoursCaliforniaInterviewsFirst LadyNancy Author:Cynthia Nixon
“Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to my interviews with me - he'd come to all these places that would never have had the guy from N.W.A. Wasn't it genius?” GuyGeniusProducersInterviewsIntroducingJerry Author:Michel'le
“"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.” IfsWantWritingDesireSuccessfulClearDecadesUnhappyInterviewsProductiveCasualAlways HappyBiographers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.” DifferentFunOpinionDistanceInterviewsWow Author:John Calipari
“I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.” IdeasStuffChanceInterviews Author:Emily Haines
“[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.” PeopleLittlesHappensInterviews Author:Emily Haines
“I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.” StillsDifferentCareersBreathsAlbumsInterviewsCakeApprovalReally CoolTweet Author:Cakes da killa
“I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, "Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person." And I thought, "Oh my god..."” KnowsLooksPersonsMadeShowsSpiritualSongTalkingMillionsRecordsKingsInterviewsNot InterestedLarryTalk Shows Author:Werner Herzog
“I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true." He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you." But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.” TryingKindSaidLyingMusicianJazzBeing TrueInterviewsJazz MusicJazz MusicianFreestyle Author:Paul Beatty
“I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.” WantStuffPressesBritishInterviewsItalianStance Author:Paul Beatty
“Hillary Clinton has not done an interview with me during the campaign season. I spoke to her years ago but not this season...so I don't want to misspeak.” WantYearsDoneYears AgoSeasonsClintonCampaignsInterviewsSpokes Author:Maria Bartiromo
“Donald Trump has come on a lot and I think one of the hardest parts of my job is digging down beyond their talking points to get them to say something that people actually want to hear rather than what they've come to the interview with, and that is difficult. That's a reporter's challenge.” PeopleThinkingWantJobsDifficultChallengesTalkingTrumpHardestInterviewsReportersDigging Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game.” FeelsFirstsDoneGamesRadioInterviewsJackie Author:Larry King