Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some…

“Alabaster was never mad; he’s just learned so much that would have driven a lesser soul to gibbering, that sometimes it shows. Letting out…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Good works?" "About the village, sir. Reading to the bedridden - chatting with the sick - that sort of thing, sir. We can but…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Merit. No. Ma— No. There’s an m word for bravery, but I can’t recall it. My frontal lobe is still drunk from last night.”…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.”

— Stephen Richards

“A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man...”

— Joey W. Hill

For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend…

— Mary Roach

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

— Barbara Walters

“Who is this man I’m supposed to interview, this man whose last name is the same as the color of my sweatpants? Is that…

— Andrew Shaffer

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

— Michael Finkel

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

— Graham Norton

“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game…

— Anonymous

I'm not really a big fan of doing interviews.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more…

— Jane March

If you're going for an interview, you will dress smartly and look the part, that is absolutely fine, but it's just the level to…

— Jo Swinson

On my podcast, I got to interview Will Ferrell, Sam Hunt, Colin Cowherd - all these different names - and it was just really…

— Sam Darnold