Cameron Russell Quotes

I am not a good cue card reader.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

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 enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

I didn't think I was much of a public speaker.

When I talk, people listen.

When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

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

I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.