Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.
I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.
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.'
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.
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