Dramatic Orator Gifts

"...I vehemently deny all of the allegations against me..."

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

"To be or not to be."

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

'We'll send you to acting class when you're older. For now, get up and get ready for school.'

Harriet Walter

'To make sure I get noticed I always talk in a big bold typeface.'

Samuel Beckett

William Pitt the Elder

"‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation in a Freaking Gymnastics Camp and Nearly Broke My Neck,’ by Delia McConnell."

"An actor ... huh, that’s funny, because you look just like a waiter."

'A 'pregnant pause' is effective only if you've already said something.'

An opera singer

John Galsworthy

'He'll be really p****d if he doesn't get nominated for an award this year.'

"Looks like a storm ahead, Captain." "I think you're being over dramatic."

"In closing, let me tell you that never in the universe have I spoken before such an attentive audience."

You don't understand....

Nice speech, but you don't have that many friends. You better add "Romans and countrymen."

Ventriloquism For Beginners

"He says he's a Professor of Rhetoric but I'm not persuaded."

'Is not the evidence of the accussed, members of the jury, a earrage of evasion and lies Do bears, or do bears not shit, in the woods'

"This is very mysterious. I can't seem to pick up anything at all about you, but I see 'Ivan the Terrible' coming to the Thalia."

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

"Mother, take your time, I know this isn’t easy for you. But this is an important moment in our lives, so I will ask you one more time, what on earth did you do with my old comic books?!"

"What Color Is Your Soapbox?"

'I'd like now to introduce Len who will tell slightly humourous stories in his inimicable self-serving way,'

"All in favor of ending the heartache and the thousand natural shocks this firm is heir to, say aye."

"Imagine the treat as if you already have it."

"Pastor, we think it's time for your sabbatical."

Soap Box

J. Dudley - Statesman, orator, philanthropist, big deficit spender.

' Pol Meeting'

"With your rhetorical skills, young man, do you realize that you could become a mogul?"

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