William Cowper Quotes

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Go ahead, Teleprompter, Go ahead!

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

I love doing things on stage with other people.

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

I wonder what my speech would be.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

When I'm speaking in front of 15 and 20,000 people and I'm up there using a lot of motion, I guess in it's own way, it's a pretty healthy act. I really enjoy doing it. A lot of times these rooms are very hot, like saunas, and I guess that is a form of exercise and, you know?

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.