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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. -- Katharine Hepburn
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. -- James Thurber
Interviews don't go to the core of my life, -- Michael Moriarty
Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer. -- Muriel Spark
Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile. -- Jack Gleeson
Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book. -- Michael Moriarty
Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. -- Errol Morris
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either. -- Andrew Marr
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind. -- Michael Nesmith
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself. -- John Krasinski
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) -- John Irving
I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone. -- Adhir Kalyan
We were looking to collaborate with someone on both those fronts [ writing and directing] and it ended up just being me [in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. So, at this point, it's the epitome of a passion project and I just hope people like it. -- John Krasinski
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.' -- Dick Cavett
I often conduct interviews in my truck. -- William Shatner
I apologize for my terrible interview skills. -- Heath Ledger
David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done. -- Rachel Perry
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day. -- Diane Sawyer
The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs. -- Freddie Mercury
The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed. -- Ken Burns
I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves. -- Taylor Momsen
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it. -- Syd Barrett
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. -- Casey Stengel
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you. -- William Shatner
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. -- Lynn Barber
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James
The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank. -- Erin Moran
I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch. -- Graham Kennedy
For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant. -- Alice Lowe
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. -- George R. R. Martin
When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges. -- Jack Handey
People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21. -- Robbie Williams
Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you. -- Tom Cole
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself. -- Rock Hudson
I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that. -- Shia LaBeouf
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. -- Leonard Maltin
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews. -- Alanis Morissette
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. -- Donald E. Westlake
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that. -- Morley Safer
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! -- Roland Barthes
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
You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there. -- Steven Seagal
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
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. -- George William Curtis
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his. -- Drake
I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview. -- James Lipton
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out. -- Rachel Perry
I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times. -- Kristen Stewart
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
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW. -- Beth Ditto
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
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories. -- Taylor Swift
I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone. -- George Strait
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. -- Wesley Snipes
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I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people. -- Frank Black
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. -- Marcus Buckingham
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. -- Gus Van Sant
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me. -- Kristen Stewart
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! -- Emma Watson
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
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose. -- Jack White
Actors should never give interviews. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Ah, I don't do interviews, really. -- Joe Pesci
I don't really like doing interviews. -- Sean Young
Live interviews are more difficult to distort. -- Bianca Jagger
I am very honest, even in interviews. -- Christina Aguilera
I don't do interviews under false pretenses. -- Tom Stoppard
It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. -- Noah Wyle
I've never really done any interviews as myself. -- Sacha Baron Cohen
I decided I would never do interviews again. -- Danielle Steel
I always do my interviews face to face. -- Rachel Weisz
I do all my interviews on the toilet. -- Slash
I welcome death. In death there are no interviews! -- Katharine Hepburn
I hate interviews - but you have to do them. -- Jackie Chan
I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses. -- Deborah Eisenberg
I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews. -- Priscilla Presley
I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews. -- Win Butler
Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast. -- Gina Gogean
My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews. -- William Shatner
I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked. -- Bob Ross
All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed. -- Doris Lessing
My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews. -- Robert Fripp
The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs. -- Bjork
I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me. -- Tim Rice
I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences. -- Rupert Graves
The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font. -- Zach Galifianakis
I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it. -- MaryJanice Davidson
I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish. -- Maisie Williams
I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. -- Mike Tyson
I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews. -- Skylar Grey
I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews. -- Retief Goosen
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews. -- Barbara Walters
Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love. -- Graham Chapman
What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations. -- Jason Schwartzman
There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television. -- Eric Idle
Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence. -- Errol Morris
This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances. -- Ryan White
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest. -- Roger Ebert
No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays. -- C. S. Lewis
I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer. -- Maria Bamford
Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews. -- Coco Jones
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. -- Jack Nicholson
I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews. -- Bruce Willis
I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid. -- Aubrey Plaza
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery. -- Shia LaBeouf
I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine. -- Jason Schwartzman
I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews. -- Jose Gonzalez
Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down. -- Sade Adu
I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews. -- Megan Fox
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. -- Nick Cave
So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others. -- Hans Blix
I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work. -- Joseph Morgan
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' -- James Nesbitt
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. -- Patricia Highsmith
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. -- Shonda Rhimes
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me. -- Billy Eichner
The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more' -- Emmett Shear

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