Interview Quotes - page 13

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)
I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God. View quote
Preity Zinta
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. View quote
Willem Dafoe
I feel like those words are going to be engraved on my tombstone. It was brought up every single time I did an interview. I apologized for it; I acknowledged it; I said it was true; I said it was a joke. Do I regret it? I used to regret. Not anymore. I don't regret anything anymore. Would I hope that I would never say something like that ever again? Yes. Am I capable of saying something like that again? I hope not. View quote
Linda Evangelista
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. View quote
Tori Amos
Under the form of an interview I had done, and I knew it, the best work of my life. View quote
Paul Bourget
This is what I counted upon to extort from him the favor of an interview which he certainly would refuse to a mere newspaper man. View quote
Paul Bourget
I say to myself, "If you have not served the cause of letters, you have not betrayed it." And this is the reason, now that Fauchery is no longer of this world, that it seems to me that the time has come for me to relate my first interview. There is none of which I am more proud. View quote
Paul Bourget
In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview. View quote
Michael Kinsley
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. View quote
Bill James
[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview,, Issue 64, Winter 1975) (P. G. Wodehouse)
I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. View quote
Ornette Coleman
He's not really a difficult interview. You just have to catch the essence and rhythm of what he's saying. I'd ask him how baseball has changed over the past 25 years and he'd start telling me about his life as a dental student in Kansas City. View quote
Arnold Hano
I enjoyed that interview. He's a guy who not only says what he means but backs it up, too. I'll never forget the night I interviewed him. It was a rainy night at his house in L. A. and I kept looking outside on the lawn. He had this big black Doberman he called Rommel, and it sat out there in the rain eating a chaise lounge. View quote
Arnold Hano
Of course the interview was never used. View quote
Roger Ebert
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. View quote
Stephen Colbert
"I have been misunderstood" An interview with B. F. Skinner 1972 March/April Center Magazine, pp. 63−65. View quote
B. F. Skinner
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. View quote
John Mayer
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. View quote
John Mayer
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do. View quote
Lance Armstrong
In an interview two days ago, Watts said, Here's the problem with Washington: "If you are explaining, you are losing." (Lawrence Lessig)
I've never declined to do an interview. View quote
Ken Livingstone
I just cannot declare the independency of Taiwan. Even if Lee Teng-hui was the president now, he could also not do it! (During Sanlih News Channel interview, 2005) View quote
Chen Shui-bian
Interview, The New York Times, 1983. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience. View quote
Katie Couric