“The most starstruck I've been is when I met Sol Campbell when he was a Tottenham Hotspur player. I don't get starstruck by actors I work with, because you have some sort of relationship with them. Like, I worked with Tom Cruise [on Interview With The Vampire], so if I saw him again I'd speak to him as an actor. Although he might not be interested in talking to me.” IfsMightActorsSpeakTalkingSawsPlayerMetsVampireInterviewsTomsCruiseTottenhamHotspurTottenham Hotspur Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack
“What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.” FactsHomeWantedSpiritHellGoes OnResearchMediumsIntimacyInterviewsBondingPlugsKindredKindred Spirit Author:Marc Maron
“I find that if I don't do interviews, I get a little squirrely. I think that when you engage with someone else, or when you engage in something you're passionate about, you're sort of out of your own head.” IfsThinkingLittlesPassionateInterviews Author:Marc Maron
“I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.” KnowsWayPersonsFilmGuyActorsEmotionTalkingRolesSmartMy FavoriteCastsRageInterviewsFrankBullsRight PersonVery SmartRaging Bull Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!” WorldNeedsGivingSportsLosesChanceHalfCareersWonderfulDramaHundredShoesChampionRepeatsInterviewsDestroyingFifteenLapGraciousWorld ChampionsJenny Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDoneHomeEvilSafeUltimateI RealizedInterviewsOver ItInvasion Author:Wes Craven
“I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.” IfsKnowsGivingFeelsInterviewsPersonal Life Author:John Waters
“I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.” WantFilmMy OwnInterviewsGet AwayPublicity Author:Paul Walker
“I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?” ThinkingFirstsHumorFunnyGuyRadioInterviewsStationsThis GuyDjsReally Deep Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.” WantWellsInterestingInterviews Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsWantedUsedMy OwnCareersTeamStudentsInvolvedProjectsAdvantageEntrepreneurExcitedMissionsCoreMagazinesEnthusiasmSecureInterviewsFedsNew ThingsVentureRestlessGet InvolvedPublicityInexperienceTrying New ThingsNew ProjectsNewcomers Author:Richard Branson
“I am amazed that people want to ask me questions about God's work in my life. The interviews are a great way to share God's life-changing message and I pray that God continues to open this door for Christians.” PeopleWayWantChristianAsksDoorsSharePrayingMessagesAsk MeLife ChangingInterviewsAmazedI Pray Author:Joyce Meyer
“I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?” PeopleWayMotherLeftFunAudienceMissingInterviewsCousinMy Cousin Author:Oprah Winfrey
“There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.” Would BePastHappenedWeekWillingBasesInterviewsGoogle Author:Oprah Winfrey
“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.” KnowsNeedsGivingTryingPersonsLosesLinesAttentionReaderSixResearchToolsJournalismJournalistInterviews Author:Isabel Allende
“I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.” ThinkingMy OwnWrittenInsaneInterviewsReviews Author:Sarah Ruhl
“I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.” SchoolForceInterviewsBreastsCleaningGigsPumpsPart TimePharmacy Author:Chris Hemsworth
“In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea."” PeopleIfsKnowsSaidHumorFunnyHateParisInterviewsLove HateGonorrhea Author:Tina Fey
“I remember one time I went to a party and I had to interview Reese Witherspoon. She was just in this movie "Freeway," it's like 1996. To prepare for the interview I went to meet her at this release party, and I end up getting in this fist fight with a guy. I'm not much of a fighter but I get in this fight and the press was all there and they saw me, and all of a sudden the next day in the paper was 'Simon Rex and his posse get in scuffle, and Simon crashes a bottle over a guy's head after smoking crack in the bathroom.' I saved the article forever.” EndsRememberGuyFightingNextPartyForeverSawsPaperPressesSavedReleaseFighterInterviewsSmokingCracksBottlesArticlesOne TimeCrashNext DayBathroomFistsFreewaysPosse Author:Simon Rex
“That's one of those questions where somebody says "would you like to see more women behind the camera?" And then it becomes I must have interrupted the interview to make a platform stance. But, no, I do believe it. In Australia, per capita, we've got a slightly more balanced and healthier statistic than here. I've only just started working more regularly with female ADs and its just a beautiful, different energy on set.” BelieveDifferentBeautifulEnergyBehindsFemaleCamerasInterviewsAustraliaAdsBalancedPlatformsInterruptedStance Author:Geoffrey Rush
“Just because a movie is satisfactory means that the person who makes it is satisfactory. One can make a wonderful movie but still not be a wonderful person. In terms of interviews, it's probably not a good idea, because moviemakers tend not to tell the truth, even when asked a question.” MeanPersonsStillsIdeasTermWonderfulInterviewsTelling The TruthGood IdeasWonderful Person Author:Mamoru Oshii
“One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.” GivingTryingTogetherPiecesTeamAdviceProjectsInterviewsWorking Together Author:Sam Altman
“That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.” PeopleThinkingNewsNegativeFeaturesInterviewsPetUsersFeedbackDisappointingYour Favorite Author:Emmett Shear
“Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.” PeoplePlayMagicMiddleNotesInterviews Author:Emmett Shear
“The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'” InterestingInterviewsMost InterestingInteresting Things Author:Emmett Shear
“If I interview people, I would get to know many lives and experiences that I haven't been through myself.” PeopleIfsKnowsHavensInterviews Author:Choi Minho
“Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.” PeopleIfsLooksDoeTwoSometimesHappensArtistCrazyWorstSubjectsStupidRegretImpressionJournalistInterviewsPortraitsWorst ThingsEmbarrassing Author:Antony Hegarty
“I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.” IfsThinkingWritingLongEnoughBodyPoetTheoryIdealsInterviewsAestheticPopeEnd TimesSpend TimeHeadings Author:Albert Goldbarth
“If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.” PeopleIfsWellsPerfectOpinionStageInterviewsPersonaWell RoundedEmcee Author:Joell Ortiz
“I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.” PeopleThinkingGivingFilmProcessCreativeInterviewsCreative ProcessPromotionGiving In Author:Aaron Rose
“I appreciate my true fans for enjoying me in what I do every day, whether interviews or playing heel. They are smart and nice people.” PeopleEnjoyNiceFansSmartAppreciateInterviewsHeelsNice People Author:Alberto Del Rio
“Some interviewers aren't even interested. They're just doing it because they gotta do it. Life is nothing without passion. Whatever you're doing, at least be passionate about it because I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'm passionate about the words I'm saying right now. Just be passionate. When the interviews is passionate, it's more conversational and we're not covering the same ground.” Life IsPassionRight NowPassionateInterviewsCoveringInterviewers Author:Wale
“When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.” FeelsRealProblemReadingDifficultNotesCardsInterviewsNo Problem Author:Wale
“Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.” FightingColdInterviews Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.” TryingProblemInterviewsClichePublic Life Author:Jack Nicholson
“I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.” WorldTryingFirstsChildrenWould BeYoungActorsFantasySittingDrinkingBarsStatementsBridgesInterviewsParksTwinsRuinedExplainingSunnyTrailersEmilyYoung ActorsLiamBurlesqueTrailer Park Author:Daniel Handler
“When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.” Would BeKidsFashionNew YorkMovedInspiredMagazinesInterviews80sPersonaSan DiegoFashion Magazines Author:RuPaul
“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” DeathInterviewsReliefSarcasmSarcasticDeath And DyingDying Death Author:Katharine Hepburn
“I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever.” ThinkingWantTryingCharacterInterestingAmountLimitsInterviews Author:Robert Pattinson
“Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.” IfsTryingYearsFallYears AgoLovelyInterviewsDecentProductiveFalling ApartMillsPebblesJulia Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.” WayTryingRealSometimesWholeInspirationYouthSceneFemaleCrossesEastLondonDialogueInterviewsQuestioningConfessionHungDetectivesExaminingInspectorsEast London Author:Emily Mortimer
“The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.” GivingHelpingRunningCareersHandleCombinationInterviewsSense Of HumorAbsurdityGood SenseLandingDrillsSmackGood Sense Of HumorAbsurdity Of Life Author:Robin Roberts
“I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'.” IfsKnowsWantDoeSaidBookHumorLightHappensFunnyJobsGuyTurnsReadingAsksLet MeSpeedThings HappenInterviewsTurn-onSpaceshipsSpeed Of LightJob InterviewHeadlights Author:Steven Wright
“This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.” MediaTvsNewsAppearanceInterviewsCrewNews Media Author:Ryan White
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWritingHumansChildrenLongTwoStoriesAsksSpeakCausesHuman BeingsPartyGeniusCircumstancesNormalAnxietyDistanceSentencesAsk MeInterviewsNativeSubmitTelephonesPatheticDistinguishedGood StoryLong DistanceImpliedSocial AnxietyInsert Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.” ProblemIssuesEventsFiguresNewsRadioInterviewsTailsUrgencyProminent Author:Bob Edwards
“Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.” PersonsHoursWork OutNot SureInterviewsTapeGoing To Work Author:Bob Edwards
“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.” FirstsPersonsStatesReasonUseGovernmentAmericaReligionHeavenChurchSimpleUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesAtheismInfluenceExampleDegreesSeparationSensesInterviewsSecularUnited States Of AmericaEmployedChurch And StateFormationSeparation Of Church And StateOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianState GovernmentUs Founding FathersSeparation Between Church And StateFounding Fathers ReligiousAmerican GovernmentReligion GodChristian ChurchConstitution Of The United StatesFounding Fathers Anti ReligionFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaAmerican Founding FathersFounding Fathers AtheistDeismReligion ChristianChristian FatherUnited States GovernmentReligion And GovernmentAmerican Constitution Author:John Adams
“God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.” KnowsWantHateActorsI HateInterviewsAls Author:Jason Isaacs