Jack Klugman Quotes

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

I'm ready for the opportunity to speak about things. I've always dreamed about the opportunity to speak about stuff.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I'm not much of a public speaker.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like a saxophonist's instrument is his saxophone, plus also his voice, if he's the one between tunes that makes announcements.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

I am still shy when I go to interviews.

I've always been really open onstage.

Communicating and being loud is a big part of my game.

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.

I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.