This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
I can speak Cantonese, but I can’t speak about fashion – I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don’t know the right word – it can be very hard to explain things.
Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: ‘We’re not here for interviews. We’re not here to get your picture taken. We’re here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.’
I’ve made my records and I’ve done all the interviews. I’ve done lots of long tours. I’ve made stupid videos. I’ve done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.
You know, there’s that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound – well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
When I look back at my journey, it gives me a sense of confidence. I have been through an odd journey from Delhi to Mumbai, struggling, not having a job, shifting houses… Today, I am giving interviews. So it does give me gratitude and confidence. The fear is gone.
I love doing photo shoots and interviews. I never feel like I’m wasting my time or I never feel tired. It’s all just been fun.
As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
I think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.
I’m frightened of interviews.
I could do interviews all day.
People come to me to say I don’t sell; Brazilian media say I don’t give interviews. Nobody is obligated to do anything.
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.
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Jonny doesn’t want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
One thing that’s always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.
One of my first interviews was Robert Downey Jr. for ‘Iron Man.’
In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn’t give interviews.
As I’ve conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it’s constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.
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.’
I’ve loved Basquiat since I was 13. From his artwork to his interviews to the way he thought about things, I’ve always been excited by him.
I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that’s like – everyone is a person.
We had decided to totally disappear from the media, to not do any interviews and photo shoots. Tom and I just needed time to ourselves.
I’m doing TV interviews, I’m doing many, many print interviews.
By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident and knowing what you can bring to any project or audition – I’ve known about these things my entire life.
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, or that I don’t have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
You have to be aware of your own shortcomings. The main thing I try not to do is lose my temper. Doing live interviews on television, you learn not to say the first thing that comes into your head.
We’ve heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don’t hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.
It’s strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
Ultimately I think clubs, boards, associations have to do more to provide an equal platform for women to get interviews for jobs.
I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about – and I think there are some writers who do that – but that hasn’t happened to me. I do think it’s dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error.
It’s been fun doing interviews with the other astronauts, getting to hear: ‘Oh, that’s how he explains it’ or ‘That’s how she thinks about it.’ We work together, but we don’t necessarily share all those thoughts or ideas.
I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.
News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers – interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.
So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they’d be more valuable than others.
Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.
I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it’s an intellectual exercise.
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.
I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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.
When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn’t want to speak only about my personal life.
A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I’m like my character in ‘Easy A’, or because they’ve seen me in interviews, but really what they’re a fan of is a movie or a character.
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.
A lot of things I did were cringy. I look back at interviews, seeing the way I talked and the way I am, and it is embarrassing. I came back from the Olympics, I was shoved in the spotlight and I couldn’t cope that well.
My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it’s true.
Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. I go online and I do research on that person – Wikipedia, YouTube interviews, anywhere I can find a piece of information that kind of tugs at your heart a little bit.
I’m constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don’t know.
If you think I’m just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I’ve done and judge for yourself.
Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever I go somewhere to talk about women’s rights or make music, rap, or have interviews.
Personal questions, or accusations about delivering flops or not doing good films end up being accusatory sessions where I have to defend myself. That’s why I prefer not to do interviews.
We had decided to totally disappear from the media, to not do any interviews and photo shoots. Tom and I just needed time to ourselves.
I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping – insurance agencies, nonprofits – and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn’t even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.
When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.
