Arthur Miller Quotes

It is much better when a member resumes his seat after he has made a speech for the House to have the feeling that they wish he had gone on longer instead of wondering why he did not stop sooner.

The bully pulpit is not an open microphone. You have to target it very carefully.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

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

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.