Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

I have had people telling me that they liked my screen presence and my voice, so I guess that's my strength.

People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week.

Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.

I am very conscious of the fact I am in people's living rooms every day, and they feel like they know me.

I always give a little talk before I sign books and ask for questions. I love the Q&A sessions. We have a lot of fun at my book signings. I make sure of that!

There is so much more than just what you do in the ring and what you do on the microphone.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I'd already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars - and when you hit F1 it's an even higher step up. It's something you get used to over time.

People get to know you better on the small screen, be it while judging or hosting a show.

I make sure I say something important without being preachy through all my performances.

There are so many world-class athletes who are great at their sport, but they're so boring. They don't talk, and they can't be interviewed very well.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I don't think I would be very good on TV broadcasting games.

If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a partisan fan base - measured through social media - then you are an official opinionator, monetizable through books, television contracts and the speaking circuit.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

Being a part of the WWE, I am blessed to have a platform both on social media and TV, with that platform I am able to spread my message and share my story.

How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty queens - is a question I don't expect ever to be solved.