Quotes About Speaking

It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

My main income is from speaking.

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the 'Doctor'- when you're there, you're in it a lot. You're speaking a lot.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

I'm married to Senator Vincent Hughes of Pennsylvania, so I always am speaking my mind. I remember, growing up, my parents were always involved in what was going on in the community, and their involvement helped me in so many different ways and other people within our community.

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.