Bertie Carvel Quotes

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

I'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.

I don't talk in sound bites.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

I don't think I'm going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I'll answer it. But if they don't, I don't have anything to say, really.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

Sometimes you're just interviewing someone and you're thinking the entire time, How can I get through this really quickly? Because I know this isn't gonna make it. This person is either too long-winded or deathly boring, or they don't have the point of view that supports what you're trying to do in the piece. Or often people misrepresent themselves on the phone - what they're willing to say to you then, they're not willing to say in person.