Welcome to our compilation of insightful interviews quotes! Interviews serve as windows into the minds and experiences of individuals from various walks of life, offering invaluable perspectives, wisdom, and inspiration. Whether it’s a conversation with a renowned artist, a groundbreaking scientist, or a visionary entrepreneur, interviews provide a platform for sharing knowledge, exploring ideas, and uncovering the stories behind success and innovation.
Throughout history, interviews have played a pivotal role in journalism, research, and storytelling, allowing us to delve deeper into the thoughts, motivations, and challenges faced by those who shape our world. From moments of triumph to moments of vulnerability, interviews capture the essence of human experience, offering glimpses into the complexities of life and the pursuit of greatness. They serve as catalysts for introspection, sparking conversations, and fostering connections that transcend boundaries and inspire change.
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I personally don’t feel like I’m really different with the mask on or not, but I don’t really like to take interviews or go talk to other people or in front of other people. Yoko Taro
Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets. Gary Cohn
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. Imelda Marcos
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories. Taylor Swift
The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government. Narendra Modi
Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn’t go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That’s why I’m who I am today, because I didn’t leave. And I think I made the right choice. Stevie Nicks
People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly. Jesse Eisenberg
Trump has hated Amazon for a long time, and I think that that came out in many interviews that he’s done with ‘Vanity Fair’ and with others. Pramila Jayapal
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don’t enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews. Anushka Sharma
One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children’s and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics. Steve Sheinkin
I’ve said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. George R. R. Martin
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can’t imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs. Mario Vargas Llosa
I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you’re like, ‘Chris, how dare you?’ I don’t live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can’t walk around all the time being like, ‘I’m so grateful I’m not in Darfur.’ Chris Evans
The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they’re an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It’s tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can’t do that. Dean Wareham
In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time. Lando Norris
I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it’s an intellectual exercise. Morten Harket
How I did the first ‘DiCaprio,’ it was mine. I was pulling from everywhere. I was getting stuff from movies. I was getting stuff from interviews. Everywhere. And it was fine, because it was just put out for free on SoundCloud. J.I.D
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don’t know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for ‘Doctors Without Borders’ in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. Tom Brokaw
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I’ve done press with every syndication, every country; I’ve done interviews with people dressed up as cows – there’s honestly nothing that’s gonna intimidate me! Emily Watson
I don’t feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That’s what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. Van Morrison
Most of my interviews have been with millennials, and it’s been a fascinating window into my kids’ world. It’s been so wonderful to see a generation that seems so savvy in so many ways – and so much cooler than we were. Marcia Clark
When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months – and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training. Jake Hager
I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet. Kristen Stewart
There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don’t have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews. Ranbir Kapoor
Post Malone is one of my biggest inspirations. I just love his songs and his writing. He’s a genius. Then person-wise, I’m a huge fan of Zendaya. I love her. I watch her interviews and everything she does all the time because I think she’s just such a crazy good human being. Tate McRae
No one really knows what I’m really like, and you won’t unless you spend a day with me, or if you’re my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it’s just the media talking and you can’t really get to know someone that way, obviously. Avril Lavigne
I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar. David Gilmour
My job is to be a spokesman – the spokesman, I suppose – for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. Dee Dee Myers
When ‘I’ released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine. Amy Jackson
Sometimes it’s like watching a train wreck. You’re uncomfortable, but you just can’t help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television. Tony Danza
I do interviews because it’s a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don’t have any great wisdom. Parker Stevenson
Jonny doesn’t want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot. Colin Greenwood
I’m not that great of a speaker. I don’t like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that’s how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that. Machine Gun Kelly
I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera – and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character. Ludacris
For a lot of people, most of their exposure to politics and politicians involves events on the campaign trail, interviews on cable news, or seeing a viral tweet here or there. But day to day, there’s so much more than anyone sees. John Fetterman
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you. William Shatner
But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews… I know, it’s part of the job, but that doesn’t imply I have to like it. Andrew Eldritch
I’ve never understood musicians who don’t enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can’t believe it. I always think, ‘Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.’ Noel Gallagher
I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets. G-Eazy
I have to laugh internally when I’m asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don’t have answers… so sometimes I make them up. Wentworth Miller
It’s not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It’s just that I’m basically not that comfortable doing them. Jamie Hewlett
The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I’d sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light. Chuck Connors
We didn’t want to do any more interviews. The more we talked, the worse things got. Rob Pilatus
Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you’re my hero. Ali Shaheed Muhammad
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. Patricia Highsmith
I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models – I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations. Brittany Snow
I’m really articulate when I do my thing – when I speak on the mic, when I do interviews. I’m a colorful personality. Tito Ortiz
In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I’m explaining my songs I shouldn’t be so direct about who they’re about. Adele
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
I think basically we know how stupid we are, that’s why we don’t do interviews. Elizabeth Fraser
I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can’t do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused. Judith Faulkner
People ask me, ‘Isn’t it scary living on your own?’ but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it’s really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like. Maisie Williams
I never turn down requests for interviews. I’m just rarely asked. Bob Ross
If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as to garner fame, you’ll see that I have turned down more interviews than I do. Or I turn down more things than I do. Jay-Z
You know what, I’d done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto. Keanu Reeves
I tend to avoid interviews, I don’t have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life. James Newton Howard
I’m a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews. Skylar Grey
My problem with interviews, one day I’ll think one thing, and the next day I’ll think the exact opposite. Skeet Ulrich
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project. Rowan Atkinson
Yeah, Kubrick’s a big influence. In something like ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ he is trying to use the practical light – I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they’re not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In ‘Elephant’ we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. Gus Van Sant
When you start giving interviews like the CEO of an established company, it’s just wrong. Pavel Durov
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. Jessica Savitch
Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they’re always A-pluses. Stephanie Kwolek
Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he… in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner. Nina Easton
Inherently, I’m not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes. Theo James
When I first started doing press interviews, the big question was, ‘Do you think women are funny?’ People would ask you that in an interview. In an interview! It’s like, of course they are. Matt Walsh
I’ve spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely. George Lopez
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don’t talk about it too much in the press is because it isn’t funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn’t seem right. Matthew Perry
The only thing I’m nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven’t seen. John Oliver
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. Michelle Malkin
I did, but I’m not real fond of giving interviews. Priscilla Presley
I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you’ll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future. Nile Rodgers
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his. Drake
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That’s reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like? Susan Cain
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure. Jonathan Zittrain
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn’t in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, ‘This is crazy.’ So I grew a beard. Thomas G. Stemberg
I’ll tell something, a lot of times I’d listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, ‘Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.’ But he knew the timing. I knew where he was. Marcel Dionne
It’s not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don’t hang upside down with a cape on. Trent Reznor
The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. Oprah Winfrey
Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I’m happy and proud of. Heavy D
When I was younger, I would set up Grammy parties at my house where I would invite all of my friends over, and my whole family would sit in the living room glued to the TV. But I would just dream of someday going there, and I would watch the red carpet interviews over and over and study what was happening. Lauren Daigle
I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life. Mohamed Salah
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn
It’s quite ironic that at many interviews I have had professionals telling me that ‘I don’t look married because I don’t dress like a married woman!’ It’s shattering as I never knew being married came with apparels that would define one’s marital status! Nandita Mahtani
I don’t mind doing interviews. I don’t mind answering thoughtful questions. But I’m not thrilled about answering questions like, ‘If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?’ Harrison Ford
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people simply list everything they’ve ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. Marcus Buckingham
In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me. RM
Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there’s not necessarily a right or wrong answer. Soledad O’Brien
Everybody knows Nicki is my favorite, you can go look on the Internet, I got interviews talking about standing in line for ‘Pink Friday.’ I got a fake Barbie chain… I was obsessed with Nicki. Latto
When they say, ‘Well, you gotta do some interviews on TV,’ I went, ‘Oh, I like to watch TV, but I don’t wanna be on it.’ J. J. Cale
The others don’t like my interviews. And frankly, I don’t care much for theirs. Freddie Mercury
I’ve always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the ‘Today’ show; everyone’s really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show. Lindsey Vonn
Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There’s more time when you travel less, don’t do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write. Jim Harrison
My favorite thing about being famous… it’s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It’s still pretty tough. Aaron Carter
I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous. Gary Numan
It’s funny: now we’re starting to do interviews, we’ve just begun to understand what we’re doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives. Siouxsie Sioux
I’m the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom’s birthday, or my dog’s birthday. Andrea Jeremiah
This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That’s a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes. Selena Gomez
I was scared someone would ask me something I didn’t know and I’d be on the spot. It’s the paranoia of a very shy person. I’ve gotten over those feelings about interviews for the most part. Randy Meisner
There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there. Taylor Swift