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Whenever someone publicly claims not to be able to give a speech, or talks about how ineloquent or rough-spoken they are, they're lying. Run for the hills, or resign yourself to giving them anything they want. This Stock Phrase can be traced as far back as Plato, who put it in the mouth of Socrates at his trial.note In the Apology of Socrates, Plato claims he was there himself, so it's possible that it's something Socrates actually said. This is the standard tactic of the Simple Country Lawyer, and often leads naturally into a Rousing Speech. Mirror Monologue or other technique can be used to show them practicing beforehand — often with the line about not being able to give a speech. Sometimes the character is overheard rehearsing, including, of course, this line. See also Large Ham Radio, where people seem remarkably at home giving a radio broadcast, and Throwing Out the Script, which can lend a similar air of authenticity but tends to be more sincere. Someone who genuinely lacks confidence speaking may be advised to Imagine the Audience Naked, which doesn't usually work. Compare You Said You Couldn't Dance for a similar display of skill by someone who claims to have none. |
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Played with in Sherlock when Sherlock delivers his Best Man speech at John Watson's wedding; he starts with a rambling preamble that becomes teeth-grindingly awkward as he insults the bride, her family, the vicar and the very concept of love. He then proceeds to deliver a speech that moves everyone, including the groom, to tears, using said rambling preamble as a springboard: | |
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The title character of Othello also uses this one. Before he explains how he met Desdemona, he goes on for ten or twelve lines about how he's just a plainspoken man of action who can't speak well enough to do himself much good. | |
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Referenced in Fiddler on the Roof, | |
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In Killzone 3, Evil Genius villain Jorhan Stahl prefaces his big speech with the words "This is something of a rarity for me because speeches are not my forte, but honesty is". He's lying on both counts. | |
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The Simpsons: "If I could just say a few words ... I'd be a better public speaker.". Averted in "Simpson Tide": Used well in "Trash of the Titans". |
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Averted in Parks and Recreation episode "Go Big or Go Home". | |
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Subverted in Smiling Friends, after Charlie is saved from Hell by God and resurrected in the middle of his funeral while completely naked. It Makes Just as Much Sense in Context. | |
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In Richard III, Gloucester rants to his political enemies about how unpopular he is, "because I cannot flatter and speak fair". One scene earlier, he just convinced the widow of someone he murdered to fall in love with him through sheer force of personality. At the victim's funeral! | |
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Polonius in Hamlet goes on a lot about how brief he's going to make his speeches and how he's not going to use fancy rhetoric, until the queen finally snaps at him to get to the point. | |
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In Henry V, the title character courts Princess Katherine through a series of long, flowery speeches, in which he describes himself as a plain honest soldier rather than a courtier. | |
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Django Unchained: Dr Schultz speaks with impeccable grammar and elevated diction. Whenever a yokel can't follow his erudite language, he apologizes and says that English is not his first language. | |
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In The Last Unicorn, one of the songs is sung by Prince Lir, wherein he professes his love simply for Amalthea. In the first stanza he says he can't write, which makes sense, but in the next he says that he can't write poetry or music either - while singing a solo in a song that rhymes. | |
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In The Canterbury Tales, the Franklyn starts his tale by interrupting the last speaker (whose story was extremely tedious and seemed to be going on forever) to praise him extravagantly until he gets told to shut up and get on with his own tale, at which point he gives an equally lengthy pre-emptive apology for how crude and unrefined his own speech will be. Needless to say, there is nothing wrong with his story at all. Some of the other storytellers make similar comments before starting their tales, with varying degrees of reasonableness; the Miller pre-emptively apologises for offending anyone with his tale because he can tell that he's drunk and likely to be vulgar. He's right, and his story is consequently one of the most memorable and popular with the schoolchildren who end up studying the Tales. | |
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Subverted in Madadayo. At the first Not Yet Fest, one student gets up to speak. He says that he's not good at giving public speeches—so he will recite every single station on a particular commuter railway line. And he does, reciting every last station on the line, continuing long after everyone has stopped listening, continuing while other students give their tribute speeches, continuing while the party morphs into a drunken conga line, and still continuing until the party is over and all the other guests have gone. | |
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In The Obernewtyn Chronicles, when asked to present his views at the Halfmoon Bay Cheiftain selections, Rolf starts by saying that he is only a simple blacksmith. He then goes on to eloquently and passionately describe what he would wish for the new chieftain to do; this prompts the audience to immediately vote him in. | |
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Inglourious Basterds: In the opening scene, Hans Landa claims, in eloquent French, that his French is bad (even saying that he's "exhausted" his "limited" abilities) and asks Monsieur LaPadite if they can switch their conversation to English. Of course, his real reason for switching had nothing to do with his proficiency. | |
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Played with by The Nostalgia Critic, in the one-year anniversary brawl; trying to give an inspirational speech to his "forces" before the brawl commences, he laments his inability to do so. | |
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In Henry IV, Part 1, Hotspur repeatedly says that he's not a man of pretty words. He still talks A LOT. His "rousing speech" does get interrupted twice and even his dying words need to be finished by another character. | |
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George Harrison says this in The Beatles cartoon "Boys" after winning a Mr. Hollywood talent contest. | |
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Played with in Stargate SG-1: When Carter gets promoted to major, O'Neill steps up to the podium and begins a speech with the words "Normally, I am a man of very few words", and gets unexpectedly teleported to a starship immediately after those nine words. Now standing alone, watching out from the advanced spaceship's window, he still continues speaking for a few words ("and in conclusion, I would like to say"), until he notices something is odd. | |
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In episode 2 of Steins;Gate, Kurisu Makise starts her lecture on the implausibility of time travel by claiming to have little experience giving lectures and asking the participants bear with her. Rintaro, having introduced himself to her earlier as "Kyouma Hououin", immediately jumps from his seat arguing for the possibility of time travel. Cut forward to Rintaro having been thoroughly humiliated by her knowledge on theoretical physics that she so eloquently used to debunk his every claim, punctuated with a patronizingly drawn-out "Hououin-san". | |
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In A Man of Iron, Greatjon Umber describes himself as far from scholarly, then reminds the Northern lords of their history. | |
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Berowne, in Love's Labour's Lost is called out on this by another character - he makes a speech about how he's going to give up all this wordplay and express his love plainly, then goes on to say "My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw", to which she interrupts "Sans 'sans,' I pray you!" - sans being french for "without" and something of an affectation of posh speech. | |
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In Daria, the title character has these last words to say to the host of characters at Lawndale High: | |
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Daredevil (2015): When Wilson Fisk decides to make himself a public figure, while speaking on the steps of City Hall: | |
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Mark Antony says this during his funeral oration in Julius Caesar: "I am no orator, as Brutus is". He then proceeds to completely eclipse Brutus' previous speech; his claim that Brutus is an orator is one of the many Stealth Insults in his speech; he's hinting to the crowd that Brutus (who had previously convinced them that killing Caesar was the right thing to do) was a crafter of words rather than a narrator of facts, and thus was just fooling them with propaganda. | |
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Davos Seaworth of A Song of Ice and Fire uses this trope almost every time he speaks. So far he's proven to be one of the series most influential politicians and diplomats. | |
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The Good Place: Janet is a humanoid information access point, more akin to an anthropormophic Siri or Alexa than a person, but hundreds of reboots have greatly enhanced her ability to relate with humans. While the main characters are toasting one another after a small party, she speaks up. | |
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Futurama: A character hitting on Leela says, "I've never been much good with words, which is why I find myself in such a delicate conundrum". | |
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Also in The Bible (New Testament) - Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11 "I may indeed be untrained as a speaker...". Paul was highly educated. He was probably somewhat playing this trope, somewhat slyly comparing himself to others whom he considered to be lying windbags/false teachers. | |
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In The Stand, Stu invokes this when he's moderating the big Free Zone meeting in the auditorium. He doesn't say the line, but he talks about how nervous he is and asks them to bear with him and they'll get through it. He's more sincere than most, as his internal monologue reveals that he is quite nervous, he has no background in public speaking or post-high-school education, and moments later he gets a terrible burst of feedback on the microphone and then swears more audibly than he intends. Shows up in The Film of the Book too. | |
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Parodied on the Saturday Night Live sketch "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer". He'd begin every summation by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just a caveman. I fell into some ice and was later revived by some of your scientists". He would then go on about how unaccustomed he was to the entire modern world, until the jury found in his favor out of sympathy. | |
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In The Taming of the Shrew, during the "wooing scene", after Petruchio makes two affected praises of her beauty, Katherine sarcastically asks him, "Where did you study (i.e. memorize) all this goodly speech?". Petruchio responds, "It is extempore, from my mother wit". | |
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Game of Thrones: Davos Seaworth loves to play up his humble, plebeian origins in an apologetic way before delivering accurate, powerful and convincing dissertations worthy of the best statesman. This is both out of genuine humility and an awareness that bragging in any way of his eloquence or intelligence is not going to be well received by the very people he is trying to win over to a cause. The result is that the arguments he follows up such self deprecating introductions with tend to be highly effective and compelling. | |
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The schoolteacher in Blazing Saddles starts off reading a telegram she wrote to the governor in a small, meek voice, when the crowd tells her to speak up. She apologizes, citing this trope, then gets incredibly loud all of a sudden. | |
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In Batman (1989), when DA Harvey Dent makes his first public appearance he begins his fairly decent speech with, "I am a man of few words, but I will make those words count...". | |
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Blackadder the Third. Prince George hires two actors to help him prepare to give a speech which was written for him by Blackadder: | |
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In Doctor Who serial "The Horns of Nimon", the Fourth Doctor is being chased through a building, and runs onto a stage, pausing at the podium to say "Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I stand before you desperate to find the exit". He then goes down into the audience and starts talking to them, as the guards chasing him run past across the stage and out. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Destiny of the Endless makes this claim (Desire, who is present, mimics him and mockingly adds "or speaking at all"). Other characters gradually realize that Destiny still isn't really speaking publicly; he's reading publicly. It comes in handy to have a book containing everything that is, was, and will be. | |
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Parodied in H.M.S. Pinafore in 'common sailor' Ralph Rackstraw's speech to Josephine: | |
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Parodied in the Homestar Runner toon A Death-Defying Decemberween. Right before performing his death-defying stunt, Homestar announces "I'm not very good at speeches...". After an awkward pause, he launches right into the stunt without any further words. | |
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Firefly: Jayne, when forced to give a public speech for the "Jayne's Day Parade" (It Makes Sense in Context, though that's not how Simon sees it), starts off with "I'm no good with words. Don't...don't use em much, myself". This is pretty much true, but he makes a surprisingly good effort (for Jayne, anyway) commending the gathered "Mudders" for enduring the hardships they face and continuing on despite the raw deal life (and their bosses) have dealt them. Then, when he's exposed as a fraud and someone's killed saving his life anyway, he gives another, much more impromptu speech that's also more heartfelt (and Jerkass-ish), calling them idiots for thinking of him as a hero who would look out for them, but is much more awesome all the same (in no small part because he finishes by singlehandedly tearing down the statue of himself they had built). | |
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In Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse The City That Dares Not Sleep, Abraham Lincoln claims that he's not good at speeches before telling an army of Maimtrons to KICK SOME ASS. | |
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Quoted verbatim for laughs in Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review of Middle Earth: Shadow of War to parody orcs as eloquent politicians. | |
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