Mackenzie Astin Quotes

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.

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

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.

I am not a good cue card reader.

I have a good face for what I do.

I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

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

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.

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

See, I would never have Beyonce up here public speaking. She's not good at it. Solange was just at Yale. She's incredible at it.

If you can make yourself popular in front of any audience, you can use it anywhere.