Come up Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

— SZA

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

— Christina Aguilera

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

— Charles Barkley

I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying…

— Errol Morris

Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck.

— Emily Maitlis

Very few interviews are a conversation. It's usually a question and I have to answer for two minutes. By the end of the day,…

— Brie Larson

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand…

— Thomas Friedman

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying…

— Cass McCombs

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen,…

— Matt Dillon

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I find that if I don't do interviews, I get a little squirrely. I think that when you engage with someone else, or when…

— Marc Maron

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

— Errol Morris