Andrew Roberts Quotes

Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

I'm the American Winston Churchill.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

I always felt like we were here to do a job, so you should be out there practicing and playing.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.