When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization. "
I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.
I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.
I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?
I apologize for my terrible interview skills.
I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.
How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that farts make you laugh? And you're a professional in comedy? But then, have you ever seen a video of a small dog that farts? Welp. I don't need to explain that anymore. If you can't see the humor in that, good luck being a CEO somewhere where I'm not going to understand you. It's a harmless thing to laugh at. It's humor that's not at the expense of someone else. And it's silly. It's juvenile.
For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.
Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.
The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.
