What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.
We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.
Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
