Top 20 Teleprompter Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Teleprompter Quotes from famous people such as Linda Sarsour, Tony Khan, Mollie Hemingway, Rick Perry, Nicole Kidman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidenti

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It’s your actions that you take, and it’s democracy.
Linda Sarsour
When you see a guy reading off a teleprompter or a mental teleprompter, just trying to recite a script or trying to look up in the air when you forget a line. It is hard to suspend disbelief when the wrestler doesn’t believe in the real-life situation that is unfolding.
Tony Khan
While teleprompter use is very common for politicians and others giving formal speeches, Biden is the first candidate to regularly use one outside of formal speeches, such as during press conferences.
Mollie Hemingway
If you’re looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He’s destroying our economy. I’m a doer, not a talker.
Rick Perry
I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn’t notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.
Nicole Kidman
With ‘The Soup,’ obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can’t read the teleprompter properly.
Joel McHale
My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.
Rudy Giuliani
Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies – liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.
John Ridley
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
David Herbert Donald
I started at the ‘Wall Street Journal Report’ as a production assistant typing chyrons and rolling the teleprompter, and then I became a producer, producing stories in the field, then the show’s line producer.
Martha MacCallum
I’m a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn’t think through adequately. I mean, I don’t type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
Ted Turner
I always said that I wouldn’t use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I’ll hang it up.
Jimmy Buffett
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I’m trying to slow myself down.
Chris Hayes
There are great news anchors; they’re probably very smart, but they’re not talking to the audience like real people. They’re just reading from a teleprompter.
Ana Kasparian
Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.
Mark McKinnon
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a writer to write all his stuff.
Randy Orton
If I’m off the teleprompter, management doesn’t get to see what I’m going to say.
Cenk Uygur
Sonu Nigam, Farah Khan and I don’t have a teleprompter and neither do we plan about what we say. If we break into a argument or kiss and make up, it’s all real.
Anu Malik
I have no broadcasting training. No one’s ever said to me, ‘This is how you read a Teleprompter.’ They just pointed to it and said, ‘It’s over there.’
Lawrence O’Donnell
Sen. McCain isn’t someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn’t seem to like the formality of giving speeches. He clearly isn’t too comfortable reading off a TelePrompter.
Mike Gallagher