Terry Gross

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to…

— Terry Gross

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

— Terry Gross

Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A…

— Terry Gross

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

— Terry Gross

When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page…

— Terry Gross

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American.…

— Terry Gross

Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he…

— Terry Gross

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

— Terry Gross

I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard…

— Terry Gross

My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was…

— Terry Gross

I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's…

— Terry Gross

You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into…

— Terry Gross

So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book…

— Terry Gross

Sometimes when I'm on the internet, I'll get this, like, which of these ad experiences would you prefer? And I'll have a…

— Terry Gross

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

— Terry Gross

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative.…

— Terry Gross

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing…

— Terry Gross

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

— Terry Gross

I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely,…

— Terry Gross

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet…

— Terry Gross

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is…

— Terry Gross

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

— Terry Gross

I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or…

— Terry Gross

Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing…

— Terry Gross

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But…

— Terry Gross