Charlie Rose Quotes

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

I'm frightened of interviews.

I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer.

I think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.

I'm not a good interviewer.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

I have spent a long time being asked questions in interviews, so I've experienced it on the other side but I'm really not afraid to ask any question myself.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.

I'm not a big fan of the interview. It's a lot of questions I don't have answers for, a lot of questions about the music industry.

I'm the best interviewer in the whole format. Except for Howard Stern, I'd put myself against anybody. Because I ask human questions.