Quotes of Interview - somelinesforyou

“ The best interviews — like the best biographies — should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. ”

- Lynn Barber

“ I can't say I knew very much about the magazine,... I've had lots of telephone interviews with magazines... I don't have to agree with their views. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! ”

- Roland Barthes

“ A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience. ”

- Bishop Mervyn Stockwood

“ I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself. ”

- Rock Hudson

“ My opposition lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. ”

- James Thurber

“ I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be doing the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the facade-piercing interview. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. ”

- John Updike

“ If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement. ”

- Gilbert Harding

“ I read an interview with her a couple of years ago… when she talked about what she wanted to do post-government career. She wanted to be the commissioner of the National Football League. ”

- Al Michaels

“ I dabble. I'll write about a gastronomic binge, I'll write about NATO, I'll do an interview with Nureyev, I'll do a political piece. I don't know a hell of a lot about anything. ”

- Flora Lewis

“ I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty. ”

- Dan Hicks

“ Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. ”

- Dan Zevin

“ It is not every question that deserves an answer. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity. ”

- Dorothy Sarnoff

“ You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. ”

- Mary Renault

“ I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. ”

- Julianne Moore

“ One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”

- Alice James

“ One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”

- Alice Jones

“ A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better. ”

- Barbara Walters

“ Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”

- Alice James

“ Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”

- George William Curtis

“ Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview. ”

- Kurt Russell

“ I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left. ”

- Clint Black

“ Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. ”

- Katharine Hepburn
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