Quotes About Performance

I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum - I was quiet. I remember a time when there was a skills competition, and I think I was five, and I was so nervous to even compete that I chose not to do the skating part.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do.

People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

I give a speech at some colleges and corporations called 'Performing Your Life: An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor.' I get asked a lot of questions, and people say, 'Your stories are wonderful. You should write a book.'

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

I had always known that I couldn't play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.

I had a really, really hard time working with Aniston because I was so in love with her. I was infatuated. I was speechless - I'd get all bubbly and forget my lines and completely blank. It was so difficult.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.