Richard Sherman Quotes

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

A great speech is literature.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

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

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

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

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

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

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

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

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.