Interview Quotes

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

Find, Whole, Meaning

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
Tori Amos

Time, Find, Half

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

Work, Talk, Film

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

Society, Question, Read

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
Keanu Reeves

Done, Show, Television

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

Everything, Become, Makes

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Single, Learned, Old

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
David Frost

Power, Simple, Struggle

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.
Ron Fournier

Job, President, Debate

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

Time, Poetry, Memory

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

Game, Different, Before

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
John Mayer

Person, Words, Talking

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
John Mayer

Life, Home, Character

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

Words, Put, Wrong

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
Heath Ledger

Terrible, Apologize, Skills

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

Friend, Farewell, Her

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
Jennifer Lopez

Character, Him, Down

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
Christopher Walken

Funny, True, Sometimes

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

After, Started, Biology

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

May, Months, Six

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.
Evan Davis

Face, Stand, Prepared

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
Jack Nicklaus

Victory, Proud, Once

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
Tom Araya

Someone, Book, Tell

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
Sloane Crosley

Birthday, Time, Graduation

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

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo

History, Death, Someone

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
Fareed Zakaria

Quite, Name, Practice

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
Isabel Allende

Bad, Person, Everything

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
Graham Norton

Worth, Times, Ten

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.
Chris Hemsworth

Work, School, While

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