Vince Cable Quotes

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Long speeches work if they’re filled with substance.

President Johnson wanted his speech writers to use words with fou r letters, sentences with four words, and paragraphs with four sentences

The best way to study about speech writing is to read great speeches.

Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.

I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.

I'm not going to lie: I fell out of love with football for a little bit because I had some good performances but then just didn't get the chance to play on.

After 'Taramani,' life has changed - in a sense, as we grow, we evolve. My regret was post its release. After giving so much of my effort, blood, sweat, tears and time for a movie... I still didn't get any big offers. That really hurt.

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius.

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

At certain times, you start to - maybe not lose the faith - but just wonder how long it will take until someone picks me up. I was thinking, 'Is it just me? Do I think I'm better than any manager does?'

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were written and delivered within a four-week period of each other.

Sen. McCain isn't someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn't seem to like the formality of giving speeches. He clearly isn't too comfortable reading off a TelePrompter.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.