If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Hillary Clinton

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

Women Men Fear

Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.

Amy Schumer

Wit Us Too

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Annie Lennox

Marriage Future Fear

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

Bill Clegg

Great Fear Test

When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.

Blake Mycoskie

Men Age You

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

Bristol Palin

Write Want Use

I spoke at a number of conventions, like for pharmacists and cosmetologists, so I've done a lot of public speaking in my life.

Caroline Mulroney

Life Vent T

I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.

Charles Kennedy

You Worst World

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

Chris Moneymaker

Fear Won Who

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

Christopher Buckley

Wit Us T

My day-to-day varies. I do some public speaking. I talk to school groups.

Clemantine Wamariya

Ups Up Talk

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

Connor Franta

Car YouTube You

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

Dana Perino

You Think Thin

Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.

David D. Burns

Power Men Art

Doing stand-up is not normal. People fear public speaking above all other things, and I am no different.

Dominic Holland

Fear Up Things

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Eliot Spitzer

Tree T Street

I'm pretty shy. I'm so bad at public speaking. I can answer questions in front of a crowd, that seems to be fine, but standing up there by myself and delivering some kind of speech, I'm the worst. I hate it.

Ellyse Perry

Worst Up Tan

Public speaking is the number-one fear... even over death!

Emily Deschanel

Fear Death T

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

Gary Clark, Jr.

Car Use Us

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

Hasan Minhaj

T Speech Speaking

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Hillary Clinton

I was first spotted for a modeling career and there's no talking involved in that - the thought of doing any sort of public speaking at that time would have terrified me. So that was something I sort of had to learn.

Holly Willoughby

I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of 'Fear Factor.'

Hong Chau

In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

Imran Amed

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

James Newton Howard

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Jane Fonda

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

Jason Wiles

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

Johann Johannsson

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

Karl Pilkington

Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

Katha Pollitt

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

Kelly Clarkson

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

Kerry Stokes

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

Kevin James

When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.

Konnie Huq

It was only after a visit to a learning centre, where they taught me public speaking, that my personality emerged.

Kubra Sait

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

Lapsley

I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

Lauren Gibbs

If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.

Lindsey Stirling

I've been an educator all my life pretty much. It's important as a manager and also as a record label, to educate your artists on public speaking, how to build that connection, how to communicate effectively, to have a general working knowledge of the music industry.

Mathew Knowles

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.

Mathew Knowles

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Mimi Kennedy

Sorry, public speaking isn't really my strong side.

Naomi Osaka

The fear of public speaking is a primal fear. You can train your body to not be crazy when you're doing it, but it truly is a primal fear.

Neal Brennan

I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.

Neal Katyal

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Nicholson Baker

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.

Paul Dano

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Rebel Wilson

I majored in sociology and never took a single music-related course, much less any kind of class in public speaking - no confidence for it, none - yet I still had a passion for it that burned inside me.

Regis Philbin

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Rene Redzepi