I always feel bad when people ask me questions. I always felt that I was a terrible interview because I don’t have any problems with anyone, and I don’t have a terrible past. Or I don’t have any terrible problems to talk about that would make interesting articles.
In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I’m giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can’t remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I’ve never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.
Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn’t done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for ‘The Daily Telegraph’ after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket.
There’s so many different medias on the internet, taking it from the big medias and making their own little article out of that and changing it into something that it isn’t. There’s never one story from an interview, there’s always so many different stories.
In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
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.
I remember watching Regis and Kathie Lee interview celebrities, and my mom looked so happy. I just did the math. I wanted to make my mom happy, and I wanted to talk to celebrities. Basically, I wanted Kathie Lee’s job!
If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.
An interesting way into the celebrity interview podcast is via their dogs. Celebs may not be keen to let us into their homes, because they don’t like us to see how wealthy they are. However, tell them you want to go for a walk on Hampstead Heath with them and their mutt, and they’re only too happy.
I’m not a very good interview, usually.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for – you profile – you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers.
Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That’s not an interview. It’s like they’re just saying my quotes back to me.
In America, going on a date is really more like ‘interview night.’ You have to give your resume.
At the interview, they asked me what music I liked and what I thought of Britney Spears. I said she was an idiot. Then they said I’d got the job. I was absolutely terrified.
I don’t like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of ‘Henderson the Rain King’ in the pocket of my coat. I was wearing the best clothes I had – a pair of cords and a sport coat – but when I got to the office, all the other interviewees were lined up in their black suits.
I’m a pretty accommodating person, and I want to be the best I can at my job. So if someone asked me to do an interview or something that didn’t fit into my schedule, I’d basically say yes to everybody.
Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet – completely sober.
Whenever I go on a job interview, I always recommend Rachel Talalay. I love her.
I think when you’re looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You’re not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
I seen an interview with Kobe; he said what separated him from a lot of people was everyone thought 30 points was a lot. He said he never set himself a limit, and that always sticks in my head. He said he’d score 100 if he could. So he never had a limit, I don’t put a limit on anything.
There’s things you just don’t ask, because if you did, the interview would be over very quickly.
We all have personal brands and most of us have already left a digital footprint, whether we like it or not. Proper social media use highlights your strengths that may not shine through in an interview or application and gives the world a broader view of who you are. Use it wisely.
I terminated the interview when I didn’t know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
You banter, and you talk, and you get a sense of the speed of thinking and flexibility… It’s not terribly scientific, but I interview a dozen or two dozen people a week, and I get a certain vibe reasonably fast.
Our ‘Hot Ones’ interview show is all about deconstructing celebrities and making them seem like normal people.
On my show ‘One on One’, I interview leaders from around the world – in politics, business, art. My other show, ‘Her Village’, is more like ‘The View’.
I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he’s an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.
I’m not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive – they’re $3,500 a month! I don’t want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in ‘Interview’ magazine.
I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.
When I hear an interview that I’ve done, and I’ve said ‘like’ a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
I don’t think we’ve ever been in an interview where someone hasn’t asked, ‘How did you guys get together?’
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’
I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for ‘A Mighty Wind,’ which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. I’m just a sucker for any funny guy that has a wife who is intelligent and that he collaborates with.
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.
Sure, it’s fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.
When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it’s a platform for instantaneous response.
Every time I do an interview, it’s like serious therapy. But real therapy isn’t something that I’d ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
I was so stressed in the closet. In an interview, I was scared they were going to ask me about a crush, or the type of girl I liked, or whatever it was. And I was going to have to lie by omission. It was always in the back of my mind.
I didn’t have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn’t even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn’t understand what I did wrong on those job applications.
I will not be doing an interview with Sean Hannity.
I don’t want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.
Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, ‘We hear you’re working on a big story,’ sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.
I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.
Just doing any kind of work – even an interview for breakfast television – makes me feel happy.
