“Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.” PeopleWayTryingI CanTwoKingsInterviewsTireTouringTwo WaysBurgersBurger King Author:Moby
“Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.” KnowsHardEnoughHoursFindingsInterviewsNeedlesOne Hour Author:Steve Jobs
“Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.” LosesDutyToughInterviews Author:Walter Cronkite
“Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.” PeopleIfsWayWritingDifferentPlayStoriesActingFootballPersonalityDrawsPaintJournalistInterviewsNavigateCarpenter Author:Tom Sizemore
“I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.” ThinkingHumansDoneDarkMistakeNiceShareThings To DoRight ThingInterviewsUnusualNice ThingsDark Things Author:Angelina Jolie
“I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.” SaidFilmActingClassStudentsAgentsInterviewsSecondsLead InActing Classes Author:Kirstie Alley
“But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn't interview me for this DVD.” PeopleMeanFormPiecesPlansHappenedSourceProudInvolvedStudiosInterviewsDvdsPuffOral History Author:Nicholas Meyer
“I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.” WantWishToo MuchInterviews Author:Mike Tyson
“The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.” FirstsKindShowsVoiceMorningFourNew YorkCoupleRadioInterviewsPubs Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.” StoriesUseLanguageParticularPersonalityConversationSpeechStructureRhythmInterviewsFascinationDeliveryEmbeddedConductingDialectDictionSpoken Language Author:Steve Cosson
“It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.” PeopleLyingReadingActorsInterviewsMisconceptionFamous Actor Author:Zoey Deutch
“When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.” ShouldYearsHumansLooksDifferentHuman BeingsEffortLordStrangeExtrasInterviewsDvdsExtra Effort Author:Brigid Brannagh
“Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.” PeopleSaidSeemsStreetsWaveInterviewsBisexual Author:Elton John
“You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsShouldHandsCareActorsAsksSpeakTalkingScriptsEntertainmentChinaAsk MeUncomfortableInterviewsMakeupReportersWho CaresTibetGrown Man Author:Brad Pitt
“In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.” SaidActingInterviewsHobbies Author:Jack Paar
“When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.” SaidWholeStoriesTodayFunChristFiveBoredInterviewsFinding YourselfSo Bored Author:Christian Bale
“I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'” ThinkingKnowsMy FavoriteVampireInterviewsInterviewers Author:Robert Pattinson
“I really love Charlize Theron. I've never met her before, but she seems really down-to-earth in interviews, really intelligent and funny and cool - and she's just this glorious goddess who holds herself with such confidence.” SeemsEarthMetsIntelligentGloriousInterviewsGoddessDown To Earth Author:Alexandra Daddario
“I listened more than I asked. There's a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see - the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space.” WayHandsWantedMovingSpaceStyleInformationEssenceMadDetailsObviousCommunicateVideoInterviewsOnlineGesturesYoutubeHer Smile Author:Vera Farmiga
“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.” ShowsJobsRememberAssumingInterviewsCriticizeLooking For A Job Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.” PeopleConversationIncreaseProductivityInterviewsPilotsHeadphonesCockpit Author:Judy Woodruff
“I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.” ShouldGirlInterviews Author:Taylor Momsen
“One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.” PeopleMadeImportantHavensSkillsNewsMouthsInterviewsNuance Author:Lester Holt
“Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.” NextAsksAnswersPrinciplesSubjectsListeningCuriosityListsCuriousExcellentInterviewsDedicatedDeviate Author:Michael Kay
“There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here.” IfsStillsWarFightingWinningAliveShameInterviewsHelp With Depression Author:Jared Padalecki
“When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.” SaidLyingDifficultySavingInterviewsSense Of Humor Author:Eva Longoria
“I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.” MindRealAskingInterviews Author:Katie Price
“I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.” ThinkingRight NowScaredGet UpInterviewsCritique Author:Linda Perry
“The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .” IfsKnowsWellsBookProblemWantedNamesProcessFeetFiguresApproachPagesTestsBottomAveragePhonesInterviewsEach DaySpidersFlipTrickyManhattan Author:Bill Gates
“I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.” IfsPersonsCharacterFeelingsHappensHappenedMouthsWorthyInterviewsBoxingSatireTranslateGlovesAssassinsSatiristBoxing GlovesBoxing Ring Author:Stephen Colbert
“I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.” YearsLooksDoneGuySuccessfulEarsInterviews Author:Pete Sampras
“I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of making my fans happy with the music that I write and record and, of course, I want to branch out and I want to have more fans, so I try to get interviews and I try to talk to different outlets and I try to get my music everywhere it can be.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingDifferentCoursesRecordsFansInterviewsBranchesOutlets Author:Steve Grand
“You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.” PeopleCharacterRealitySpeakHeardExpressionSpeechInterviews Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.” IfsWantFeelsYearsTwoEnoughCharacterStoriesNextDecisionElementsCuriosityExcitementInterviewsTwo YearsLiving My LifeGreat CharacterRationalize Author:Ang Lee
“My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.” PeopleLooksReadingBandFindingsAdmireInterviewsLook UpComposerBrazilian Music Author:Bradford Cox
“My sisters are my best friends and my most staunch supporters. They're always there to help me through every audition, through interviews and through everything. They are the best things in my life, and I would be completely lost without them.” HelpingWould BeLostBest ThingsInterviewsHelp MeMy SisterAuditionsSupporterMy Best Friend Author:Madeline Zima
“A lot of the content that goes directly to the internet, or is web-created content, is very hand-held video where you can watch this woman fall off the coffee table, or see a funny little gag, or is interview-style stuff, which is great. I love that. I consume it like crazy. But, this is designed to be reminiscent of what you would see during primetime, and reminiscent of what you would see in a movie theater, on any given weekend, and in that regard, it's brand new.” LittlesHandsFallGivenStuffWatchesCrazyStyleInternetTheaterRegardTablesCoffeeVideoBrandsInterviewsWeekendBrand NewMovie TheaterGags Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs.” PeopleGivingShouldEndsStatesGovernmentJobsProcessCorruptionInterviewsRemoveMinorsRequestState Government Author:Narendra Modi
“It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about.” KnowsFeelsWellsSaidStillsColdComfortableInterviewsShyAbout YourselfShadeKnow Yourself Author:Kristen Stewart
“I'd never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I've been learning more about it as I've been doing interviews. I didn't even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!” PeopleIfsKnowsMadeHomeLeftNumbersHeardFineIntentionRadioClubsMagazinesPreparationInterviewsStationsZombieSpecialistsStaggeringRadio StationsLearning MoreZombie Movie Author:Billy Connolly
“Once I saw a homeless man wearing his underwear on top of his pants. Now we say, why don't the homeless just go out and get a job? If he's wearing his underwear on top of his pants, I doubt his resume is in order, and I don't think he's going to make it too far in the interview process. In fact, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's has a no underwear over your pant policy.” IfsThinkingMenFactsJobsOrderProcessDoubtSawsPolicyInterviewsOver YouPantsHomelessUnderwearMcdonaldsResumes Author:Greg Giraldo
“It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.” GivingMatterSimpleTvsAppearanceInterviewsGale Author:William Hague
“When you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.” ThinkingToo MuchInterviewsUnfair Author:Taylor Swift
“An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.” GivingPartyWillingInterviewsInterviewers Author:Jay Duplass
“When I was thirteen I basically asked my mother if it was possible for this to end, that I'd had enough of it. And I truly had had enough. And that was right about the time that we got a call for a movie interview.” IfsEndsEnoughMotherInterviewsHad EnoughThirteen Author:Linda Blair
“I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.” WantSelfInterviewsZone Author:Erika M. Anderson
“I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. These shows like Forensic Files, City Confidential, I just can't get enough of them. It's always the same sort of deal. You know that they interview the actual people that lived through the experience. I miss Paul Winfield as the host of City Confidential, may he rest in peace.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughShowsDealsCitiesMissingTvsMurderTownsCourtInterviewsHostSmall TownFilesHookedRest In PeaceConfidentialForensics Author:Kevin Pollak
“I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'” JobsParentWatchesTvsTenInterviewsWatching TvJob Interview Author:Jaden Smith
“[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an excitement about him. He was instinctively like a, he was a rebel, you know? He was kind of Bob Dylan to me, at times, and he had a lot to say. And I've never seen too many interviews by him, but the ones that I saw were pretty electric, pretty... he was switched on, definitely.” IfsKnowsLooksKindMeanStillsCharacterWould BeChoicesNamesEnergyStarsAttitudeSawsRocksRiversExcitementInterviewsRebelBobElectricDylanRock StarPhoenix Author:Jim Sturgess
“I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsConnectionsDrivenListsInterviews Author:Marc Maron