Rupert Graves Quotes

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

I'm not a good interviewer.

I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

I'm not a very good interview, usually.

I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'

I like doing interviews. I really do.

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

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.

I'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I cringe when I watch myself on camera. I'm not articulate, and I'm dyslexic, but somehow it works.

I didn't think I was much of a public speaker.

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.