There are more than five types of interviewing processes.
Interviews are not only conducted for employment but also for marketing by psychologists, media, and research. A one-to-one interview is the original format of an interview.
Job interviews can be a complicated process for both the interviewer and the interviewee as it is a formal conversation between the two. It consists of questions about the interviewee's skills, strengths, potential, behaviors, and personality.
Interviews are important for a company to reduce the number of interviewees to find the one who best fits the company. It is also the best way for the interviewee to learn about future job roles.
Many have gone through this process in life. Below is a list of the best and most interesting quotes about interviewing.
Best Interviewing Quotes
These are some of the best quotes about interviewing for you to ace all your upcoming interviews.
“A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip-flops.”
- Alan Davies.
“Posture power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.”
- Cindy Ann Peterson.
“Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.”
- Dale Dauten.
“Interviewing is not a democratic act.”
- Andre.
“But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I am funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.”
- Garry Shandling.
“It must be hard interviewing actors.”
- Daniel Day-Lewis.
“I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me. I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people.”
- Lorraine Adams.
“Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.”
- Frank Zappa.
“I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.”
- Omar Sharif.
“It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS, or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.”
- Mark McKinnon.
“When I am interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.”
- William Shatner.
“My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates.”
- Errol Morris.
“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”
- Terry Gross.
“As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc.”
- George Harrison.
“I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.”
- Liz Phair.
Must-Read Interviewing Quotes
This list of quotes about interviewing to improve your strength and skill.
“Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.”
- Samuel Sham.
“When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate, there are 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.”
- Gwen Ifill.
“My opposition to interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
- James Thurber.
“I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of writers, or anyone else who tries to make art out of life. Through science, they had reached the expressive.”
- Vivian Gornick.
“Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.”
- Bruce Forsyth.
“I am really bad at actually interviewing people.”
- Graham Norton.
“I'm used to presenting programs about pop music, interviewing pop stars, and hosting awards.”
- Miquita Oliver.
“The idea of interviewing someone is that you are getting their first off-the-cuff impression or response. You don't want them to have the chance to really prepare.”
- Asha Rangappa.
“I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.”
- Chuck Klosterman.
“I have listened to tapes of myself interviewing people and mostly I try to be better at directing the conversation.”
- Maggie Haberman.
“Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.”
- Shepard Smith.
“My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you? Or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.”
- Brian Lamb.
“I love researching, I love interviewing.”
- Quiara Alegria Hudes.
“Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly... you won't be doing this interview - you'll be interviewing the next guy.”
- Tony Romo.
“I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.”
- Sidney Sheldon.
Thought-Provoking Interviewing Quotes
To understand a lot more about job interviews, read these thought-provoking quotes about interviewing.
“Don't be loud, lift your logic.”
- 'Wealth Of Words', Amit Kalantri.
“Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.”
- Walter Cronkite.
“By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P. O. W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.”
- Spencer Bachus.
“I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerburg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.”
- Jose Antonio Vargas.
“I could get a better education interviewing John Steinback than talking to an English professor about novels.”
- William Safire.
“If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.”
- Cat Deeley.
“When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.”
- Barbara Walters.
“I like living with myself. I mean obviously, because here I am interviewing myself.”
- Jimmy Fallon.
“Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.”
- Meryl Streep.
“Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about it.”
- Anthony DeCurtis.
“When I'm interviewing people, the way I bond with them is by encouraging them to complain about how hard their day is.”
- Miquita Oliver.
“There are videos I used to take at home, pretending to be a newscaster, interviewing the teapot or my house cat.”
- Alex Wagner.
“I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication.”
- John Bishop.
“Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.”
- David Moyes.
“Asked what we do best, few of us would say 'doing a great job interview.' Yet this is one of the most highly rewarded abilities in life.”
- Thea Kelley.
Interesting Interviewing Quotes
Check out some more interesting quotes about interviewing below.
“Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.”
- Brandon Stanton.
“I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.”
- Alicia Vikander.
“Hope no Indian educationist will book my last day for a job interview, I will not be able to serve you for a long time.”
- Dr. P. S. Jagadeesh Kumar.
“When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.”
- Bill Rancic.
“A lot of us for instance are very good at our jobs but absolutely hopeless at job interviews.”
- Karl Wiggins.
“One of the greatest joys of leading a business is providing jobs to other people.”
- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“Some employers out there do want you. Yes, you. But it's not their job to find you. It's your job to find them.”
- Richard N Bolles.
“Experience managers interview to 'Qualify'... inexperienced managers interview to 'Disqualify'.”
- Mark W. Boyer.
“Question the opinions, don't question the facts.”
- Amit Kalantri.
“When I started my career, I can say my interviewing skills were not my strong suit.”
- Doris Burke.
“I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.”
- Michael Palin.
“Interviewing Hugh Mcllvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.”
- Sabastian Coe.
“I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.”
- Chevy Chase.
“My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson.”
- Dave Rubin.
