Interview Quotes
Sad Quotes about Interview

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview
with a doctor than from any human experience.
- Alice James

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what
he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.
- Graham Kennedy

I don't know if it was much of an interview.
We just shot the breeze.
- Richard Petty

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of
Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work,
so that was quite valuable for me.
- Liam Neeson

We now have the right to have immediate,
unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the
right to interview people,
both inside and outside Iraq.
- Mohamed ElBaradei

The long, forensic interview really matters.
- Jonathan Dimbleby

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case
agrees to an interview with Dan Rather.
It happened to be not confidential.
But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
- Floyd Abrams

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States.
Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
- Maria Menounos

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

When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance.
My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like
donkey punches and Monroe transfers.
Works every time.
- Rachel Perry

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about
their lives and their problems.
- Judith Krantz

Follow up the interview with a phone call.
If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone,
so can you.
- Tom Cole

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
- Lisa Guerrero

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly
interested in the person.
- Daisy Fuentes

As critical acclaim and response has built up,
every interview I give is a chance to puncture the
myth I've created about my work and refine it.
- James Ellroy

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

The first interview I went on I got at age 5.
It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
- Erin Moran

Everything has changed.
An interview has become such a confrontational thing.
It makes you very defensive.
- Francesca Annis

When I interview people accused of capital offenses,
I never even ask if they did it.
I would consider that unprofessional.
- Joseph Wambaugh

And I thought if I don't pre-interview -
first of all,
we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it
would force me to do my own research,
which takes two weeks.
- James Lipton

I want to live every moment totally and intensely.
Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people,
that's all that I'm thinking about.
- Omar Sharif

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound
to change by the year 2000.
And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
- John Hurt

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
- Sam Peckinpah

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

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses
in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started
a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
- Paul Nurse

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

David Bowie was awesome the easiest,
coolest interview I have ever done.
- Rachel Perry

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end -
I'd had enough of it.
And that was right about the time that we got a call
for "The Exorcist" interview.
- Linda Blair

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
- Nina Blackwood

You're trying to find new ideas in people.
I always think to myself, what question I am least
comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure
I ask it early in the interview.
- Chuck Klosterman

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex,
so I'm not sure.
- Uwe Boll

I haven't been drinking for years now.
Something's got to give.
I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking,
though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
- Dan Hicks

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
- Ben Harper

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

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton.
I met him two years ago.
I was looking forward to talking with him about issues
from Africa to terrorism.
- Jonathan Dimbleby

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance,
but you are seldom surprised by people in power -
you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
- Joe Sacco

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 might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them,
but I still have to be fair.
- Angie Martinez

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger
than the person being interviewed.
- Ken Burns

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

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be
interested in what it is you want to know from them.
You have to be interested in the subject.
- Kurt Loder

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly,
I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
- Rudolph A. Marcus

I just think the word interview, although it is the
view between two people exchanged,
became a sort of cliche.
You ask questions and the other one answers.
- Maximilian Schell

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes.
He would fix them on you.
In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes
on to mine and keep them there.
- Stephen Ambrose

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

An investigation may take six months.
A quick interview, profile, a day.
- Diane Sawyer

Yes, this is Mango himself.
Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a
phone interview right now.
- Chris Kattan

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart,
a genuine fondness for the rabbit.
- Mary C. Jones

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
- Heath Ledger

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 suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation
after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
- Alice James

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in,
the final question in our future-oriented society is always,
What next?
- Jessica Savitch

I've changed my mind about the interview.
I shall never give interviews.
- Maude Adams

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private
interview with Adolph Hitler.
- Dorothy Kilgallen

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view.
Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot.
It made me never want to do another interview again.
- Tia Carrere

They probably realized our interview would do more
damage to their pro-"gay" piece -
rather than help it.
- Stephen Bennett

Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is,
but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit
of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
- Owen Hart

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's
quest for meaning in a godless world.
He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask,
What is the meaning of what we are?
- Anne Rice

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now,
here with you, because it's a different sort of interview,
but when I face the media before or after the game,
I feel it as part of the game.
- Jose Mourinho

We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the
guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years.
We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process,
and Bret came out with flying colors.
We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.
- Ron Jaworski

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir,
he wouldn't be there now.
That was the first time he ever did an interview like that.
He was afraid of something like that all along.
And it happened.
- Joseph Jackson

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person
the same way you would interview another.
You ask them a question.
You let them answer.
You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
- Bob Schieffer

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe
that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward
women that is not acceptable in a politician.
In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
- Michael Kinsley

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie.
Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself,
'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun?
Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But
the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie,
I'll be punished.
- Willem Dafoe

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit,
and so, although I would have preferred to have never
done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for
a magazine or a chat show.
- Jeremy Northam

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview,
but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else,
in the wrong context in their own article about you.
- Erykah Badu

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have
a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the
interview because they think the person is going to walk out.
But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out,
they have a pretty successful story.
- Chuck Klosterman

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist,
needs to be somewhat adversarial.
Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person,
but you do need to look at it like you're trying to
get information that has not been written about before.
- Chuck Klosterman

At least for me personally, I've always tried to do
a really good job every day,
with each interview, and treat each interview seriously,
and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable,
hopefully make it an ideal experience.
- Katie Couric

I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either.
Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel
bad a little because people grew up watching me and
that's a little disturbing.
- Bob Saget

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce
was going to be doing the job,
they started selecting new people.
I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies,
and of going on for an interview.
- Jeremy Northam