Interviews Quotes - Page 9

• My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, Ideas, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.

  Michelle Obama

  Senior, Jobs, White

  6 Copy quote

• Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Brother, Husband, War

  9 Copy quote

• If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

  Grover Cleveland

  School, Cutting, Play

  6 Copy quote

• I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Hate, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Interviewers have to be work really hard to be good. They¹re more inclined to be bad. Generally, they can go either way, but interviewing on a whole isn¹t such a useful thing. I¹m not a big fan of (interviews), really.

  Ben Lee

  Fans, Way, Bigs

  5 Copy quote

• I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

  Ben Heppner

  Cameras, Television, Quiet

  4 Copy quote

• I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.

  Rick Astley

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.

  Michael Buble

  Kids, Years, People

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... .

  Myron Ebell

  Issues, Giving, Perspective

  34 Copy quote

• I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.

  Brooke Fraser

  Dad, Reading, Weekend

  6 Copy quote

• If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Views, People, Dimensions

  Source: www.achievement.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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'.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Jobs, Book

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dvds, Years, Effort

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

  Mike Tyson

  Wish, Want, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

  Walter Cronkite

  Tough, Duty, Loses

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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!

  Billy Connolly

  Home, Numbers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Thinking, Makeup

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13 ,1997.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Had Enough, Ends

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

  Jay Duplass

  Party, Giving, Willing

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Elton John

  Bisexual, People, Wave

  5 Copy quote

• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

  Steve Jobs

  Hours, Enough, Needles

  7 Copy quote

• I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

  Stephen Starr

  Sickness, Employee, Obsessive

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Self, Want, Zone

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source