Gene Wilder Quotes

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

I always hate a speech after I make it.

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

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

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.