Interview Quotes · Page 12

Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

— Misha Collins

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

— Rupert Graves

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

— James Blunt

Share your personality with interviewers, but keep a professional filter safely adhered to it.

— Neil Blumenthal

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

— Muriel Spark

In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

— Frances Hesselbein

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

— Tom Wolfe

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

— Michael Palin

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

— Tom Shales

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like…

— Moby

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real…

— Ira Glass

What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is that in not many job…

— Anonymous

With hard work and some good help, I eventually landed an exclusive interview with Auma Obama, President Obama's half-sister.

— Brooke Baldwin

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

— Walter Cronkite

In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use…

— Kevin Macdonald

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware…

— Mo Rocca

The number one problem companies have during the Y Combinator interview is that a minute into the interview, we don't know what…

— Michael Seibel

If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if…

— Billy Connolly

“The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had…

— Angela Carter

I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You…

— Scott Weiss

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being…

— Sheila Heti

I'm so not interested in gossip. It just gives me the creeps. I love the work; I love what I do. If…

— Francisco Costa

The crazy thing is, I sent out 200 letters and I got one job interview, and I actually got that job, which…

— Suzanne Todd

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

— William Shatner

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not going to be one of those interviewers that forensically destroys someone.

— Richard Quest

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

— Jack Handey

“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!”

— Maggie Reese

“Missing this interview? It's not the end of the world. It is the beginning.”

— Erin Fletcher

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.

— Michael Buble

The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.

— Ben Feldman

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

— Jose Aldo

What you see in the interview will not get significantly better when the individual is hired.

— David Cottrell

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

— Drew Pinsky

“98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

— Megan Fox

Cillian Murphy would be amazing to interview, and Emma Stone!

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

— Dean Wareham

I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity.

— Ice Cube