Quotes About Presentation

but they agreed on one thing at least: that there is an inverse relationship between being well turned out and having something to say. Rand talked about people whose careers "depend on keeping faces bland, remarks inconclusive and clothes immaculate".

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

People have a little more patience for a taped piece than they do a live piece.

Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

How you carry yourself is how people perceive you.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

To be on screen, you need to do a lot of other things. You need to look good. You need to perform well. You need to act well.

You see in comedy - performance is the cake and dialogue is like the icing on that cake.

I feel like everything's got to be neat and everything's got to be right before I put on my performance, so I brush my hair.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they've really performed in their life, where they've been in a place where they were confident.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

It wasn't so much figuring out my voice comedically, because that was always pretty clear. It was more about performing and being a good, watchable performer.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.