Best Interviews Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.”

Book Psychology Research Interviews Dull Comment Transcription

Author:Carol Tavris

“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”

Ifs Men Heart Doe Whole Enjoy Cases Violence Type Return Citizens Offers Gun Agree Fellows Interviews Endeavor Earnest Bleeding Begets Bleeding Heart

Author:Jeff Cooper

“[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.”

Thinking World War America Jew War Of The Worlds Interviews World War Ii Holocaust World War I

Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick

“It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.”

Giving Has Beens Written Policy Ears Newspapers Interviews Privacy Chins Unbroken

Author:Grace Coolidge

“I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...”

“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.”

Ifs Way Trying Figures Interviews Reviews Good Way

Author:Will Oldham

“It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.”

Needs Fighting Race Training Presses Interviews Interaction Conferences Press Conferences

Author:Lance Armstrong

“If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character.”

Ifs I Can Character Shows Interviews Talk Shows

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.”

Ifs Want Actors Raises Interviews Profile

Author:Jack Gleeson

“I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.”

People Ends Done Attention Laughing Models Smart Assuming Video Like Me Educated Plenty Interviews Articles Typical Chasing Earnest Narcissistic Make Me Laugh Very Smart

Author:Megan Fox

“I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.”

Way Dark Tongue Newspapers Interviews Dry Sense Of Humor Candid Dry Sense Of Humor

Author:Michael Buble

“I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.”

Ifs Trying Mother Advice Politician Interviews Wiser Say Anything Private Life Savvy

Author:Wesley Snipes

“A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.”

Ifs Men Should Firsts May Silence Thirds Opening Interviews Emptiness Suspects Reserves Caution Profundity

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Years Gone Happened Interviews

Author:Martin Freeman

“I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!”

“The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.”

Persons Wanted Mets Interviews

Author:Charlie Rose

“Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.”

Giving Special Treasure Magazines Interviews Collecting Giving In Special Places Time Magazine

Book:How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas

Source: How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas

“[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.”

Way Looks Age Interviews I Am The Way I Am

Author:Abigail McCarthy

“I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.”

Want Giving Hard Play Seems Interesting Interviews Play Hard

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.”

Very Good Sentences Interviews Crap

Author:Rupert Graves

“I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say.”

Years Different Done Language Paper Radio Magazines Interviews Papers Different Languages

Author:Roger Federer

“When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.”

People Thinking Said Boring Familiar Interviews About Yourself

Author:Johnny Mathis

“When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.”

Trying Mind I Can Answers Interviews Open Mind

Author:Tom Araya

“The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.”

Book Stories Turns Paper Finished Interviews Desks Reporters Deadline Noon Assignments

Author:Margaret Haddix

“When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Two Easy Minutes Honesty Integrity Interviews Openness Honesty And Integrity

Author:Bobbi Brown

“The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.”

Mean Different America Process Worst Like You England Interviews Schemes Do The Best

Author:Zaha Hadid

“The second I walked into the first interview with Harry & Niall, Harry immediately came bounding up to me asked me my name, gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and asked if i’d like a drink or a chocolate bar from the fridge. Having only 8 minutes with each group, he probably knew I couldn’t sit munching on a chocolate bar, but he gave me the tour of his fridge nonetheless, and I did take a Daim bar.”

Ifs Firsts Names Groups Minutes Drink Kissing Bars Interviews Chocolate Cheeks Hug Fridges Chocolate Bars

Author:Zoe Sugg

“DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.”

Ifs Want Years Art Realizing Cutting Type Interviews Toms Cruise Focal Point Answering Questions

Author:Mark Ronson

“In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.”

People Knows Want May Said Can Do Policy Mines Direct Mark Interviews Pet Print Editors Reporters Quotations Hesitant Peeves Pet Peeve Quotation Marks

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.”

Reason Nervous Interviews Get Real Mellow

Author:Jack Johnson

“I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.”

Book Found Daughter Tables Leaving Coffee Interviews Avoiding

Author:John H Richardson

“I think you want to do as much as you can for your fans. I take as many opportunities as I can when it comes to media and interviews and autograph sessions and things of that nature - as long as it's not interfering with the schedule and how much inexperience you can get on the track. When it starts to cut into that, it's kind of defeating the purpose. So that's where I draw the line.”

Thinking Want Kind Long I Can Purpose Opportunity Lines Cutting Fans Media Draws Track Interviews Interfere Schedules Session Autographs Inexperience

Author:John Wes Townley

“The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.”

People Wells Book Faces Numbers Nice Thousand Six Seven Lists Planes Best Things Interviews Hotel Signing Sellers Sushi Best Sellers

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.”

Interviews

Author:Robert Fripp

“The Sun had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.”

Character Sun Media Interviews Friendly Frank Good Relationship Great Character

Author:Rebecca

“I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.”

People I Can Subjects Interviews

Author:A. Scott Berg

“In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.”

Years Firsts Said Wanted Parent Fronts First Time Gold Nine Loud Interviews Nine Years

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“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.”

Needs Kind Different Shows News Tables Interviews Different Kinds Life Experience Different Life Interviewers News Channels

Author:George Stroumboulopoulos

“Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.”

Believe Jobs Passion Worry Financial Enormous Fallen Interviews Prospects Financial Markets No Worries

Author:Gary Cohn

“I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.”

Hate Talking I Hate Bored Interviews Get Real Talking About Me

Author:Tim Rice

“Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge.”

Persons Hard Jobs Young Challenges Hard Work Prove Adults Average Young Adult Phones Rings Handle Granted Interviews Average Person Job Interview

Author:Gareth Gates

“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.”

Sound Cost Presses Size Interviews Flew Haircuts John Kerry Hairdresser

Author:Jay Leno

“In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.”

“I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when Peep Show or the sketch show is on the telly or when were doing loads of interviews.”

Shows Bits Fairs Interviews Load

Author:Robert Webb

“In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.”

Ifs Knows Said Brain Ice Interviews Cream Flavor Ice Cream Freeze Cain Rocky Road

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.”

Ifs Men Long Has Beens Father Given Opinion Written Policy Fine Interviews Articles Respectful Divergent

Author:Patti Davis

“By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.”

Lasts Fate Majors Interviews Enterprise Twists Journalistic Twist Of Fate

Author:Tom Shales

“I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.”

Way Trying Children Book Kids Young Three Next Given Produce Raises Interviews

Author:Nick Bantock

“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.”

Way Persons Said Hard Certain Tired Breathe Interviews Infatuated

Author:John Flansburgh

“There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.”

Thinking Stills School Jobs Walks New York Building Summer High School Interviews Rejected

Author:Noah Baumbach

Interviews Quotes

Related topics

Interviews Quotes