Waite Hoyt Quotes

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

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

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

I am not a good cue card reader.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

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.

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.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

With reference to political speeches in political campaigns or with reference to discussions in the Senate, I do no more than make a skeleton outline of the line of argument I wish to pursue. I do not undertake to reduce the speech to manuscript form. Many of my speeches which have been most satisfactory to me I have prepared in a few hours. I think it is quite accurate to say that the manuscript is practically unknown in my speaking. Furthermore, I should say that even the skeleton outline referred to above is generally forgotten after I begin my speech. I try to get the subject and the outline of the subject and the objective thoroughly in my mind, and all the preparations are with a view of doing this rather than with the idea of having something before me to follow.

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.

Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.

I like to say whatever comes to mind when I am in the ring and work off the reaction from the crowd.

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.

I've always been comfortable speaking, especially on the field. Probably not as much off the field.

I'm bad with speaking. I ramble a lot.

I never plan my speech. Very often the audience triggers me into the mood.

For some reason, talking is easy for me. Practice does make perfect; I've been doing it for a while. Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out. It's very organic.