Bill Hader Quotes

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

It's essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You've got to know what's happening out there.

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

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

I'm a presenter.

I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.

I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

I am still working on patter and presentation.