Damon Lindelof Quotes

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

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

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

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

A great speech is literature.

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.

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

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

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

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

The practice of public speaking flourishes in every peaceful and free state.

One of your jobs as a speechwriter is to transform the bureaucratic into the poetic.

Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

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

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

For me, my brand is good storytelling.

As a presenter, you have to speak with artificial energy and enthusiasm.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

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