Spontaneous Speech Quotes

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

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

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, 'Before they get up to speak they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they sit down, they do not know what they have said.'

I think audibles, the way people talk about it, it's overrated.

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

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

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

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.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'

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

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

The best time to catch tribal jargon is when it's not looking.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

After I get comfortable, I kind of forget that we're even doing an interview and I say whatever comes to the mind.