In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
How easy it is to say the wrong thing! How easy it is not to recognize one has said the wrong thing!
You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.
[conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way:] With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
I often put my foot in it a little bit sometimes.
I called both President Trump and Kim Jong-Un a dictator. I didn't mean to say that. My mistake. I apologize for that.
Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?
The words walked right out of my mouth.
I have such a big mouth.
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.
Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.
Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.
It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.
Sometimes, my mouth can get the better of me.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.
Every time I talk to the press, I put my foot in my mouth.
