Quotes About Presentation

For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.

When I used to have a show on French TV, people would ask me how my jacket stayed spotless while cooking. Your whole area has to be clean - and you have to keep it that way.

It's amazing how many different dresses you need for television. When I first started, it was a really steep curve to get to the point where I felt like I finally had enough clothes.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

was a moral victory simply to question the official presentation of truth and posit an alternative by documenting observable reality.

Although there are few things easier than throwing on a dress, something about them communicates that you have made an effort.

I'm not really an actor, I'm a reactor; I'm a pitchman. That's what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theater. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

By the time we met up again, she'd be able to hand her reaction to me as a tidy package: a single square of lasagna in a sealed Tupperware container as opposed to a squalid kitchen with tomato sauce splattered on the counters. And I wouldn't have to be there while she got it in order.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

The ability to speak is a shortcut to distinction. It puts a person in the limelight, raises one head and shoulders above the crowd. And the person who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he or she really possesses.

Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.

When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product.

When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations: reel off the features, describe them as being "worth thousands and thousands of dollars," and get the audience to imagine how expensive it really should be. Then he announced what he hoped would seem like a low price: "We're going to be charging higher education a single price of $6,500.