Quotes About Interviews

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

I'm not good on talk shows.

I love doing talk shows.

I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.

When I go on 'The View,' or any of those talk shows, you really don't get to say what you want to say.

I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

I'm obsessed with American talk shows.

When I was a journalist, I didn't care how many people talked to Ice Cube before I talked Ice Cube. I just knew that when I talked to Ice Cube, it was going to be different than what anybody else had done, and it was the same with any group.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

Talking to the press is not always good.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.