In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.
The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation.
I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.
I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.
Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.
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.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
