Rand Paul Quotes

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

For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.

In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.

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

I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

I'm not a very good interview, usually.

I've been on national TV since 1994, and I can communicate in a compelling and decisive way.

I want to show you how Stephen Miller is just good, folks. He's simply good. He needs to be doing more of these. The first time he went public as a spokesman for Donald Trump was on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Stephen Miller was unflappable. He didn't lose his temper. He smiled. It appeared that Miller knew he was talking with somebody who didn't know what he was talking about and remained composed and polite.

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.

The truth of the matter is, when you're on 'Howard Stern,' you feel like you're in his living room talking to him, you don't feel like you're having an interview.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.

You gotta do interviews every day, and they don't end well for some people, but I've never had one end where I don't shake hands at the end of the deal, including with the predators.

I'm not used to doing press conferences, and I don't like giving interviews.

I actually did a lot of interviews with Benjamin Bratt, and I learned a lot about him in all of those 60 something interviews that we did, because it was a junket. He speaks very well, and I learned that from him.