Speech Block Quotes

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.

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.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.