Quotes About Performance

Speak to me about football; the rest doesn't interest me. The rest doesn't help me in my job.

I was a motivational speaker and I've been in front of crowds a lot and I'm very comfortable with that.

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

I'm a horrible public speaker.

Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That's the only difference. Don't put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need to be 'better' than the people in the audience. You aren't better. You're simply the speaker.

Speaker Boehner is doing a great job.

When I'm standing in front of all those lawmakers in the European Parliament, then I'm a speaker, when I'm singing, I'm a singer. If I'm on the catwalk, then I'm being a model. That can all happen in one week or even on the same day.

A good sound and speaker system is essential to blare Bollywood numbers.

When I do Gaelic music, I've learned about Gaelic culture; I've tried to learn the language. Whenever I do mouth music and there's Gaelic speakers in the audience, and they come up and go, 'Good job,' I'm always like, 'Phew.'

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

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.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.