Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.

For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

I have always safely relied on my voice modulations. It has never let me down.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.

I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn't realise I was going to have to do it live.

I have some friends whose sermons are extremely practical - so practical that I can put them right to use. I'm trying to learn how to do that better; but I don't think my approach or style really has changed in these 30 years. Whether that's good or bad I don't know, but I don't think it has.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.