Sam Elliott Quotes

I'm slow to pick things up. Everybody always seems to know more than I do.

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

I'm not very articulate.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

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

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.