Words matter. These are the best Stutter Quotes from famous people such as Domo Genesis, Kenyon Martin, Paul Young, Adam Sandler, Mel Tillis, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sometimes, when I’m trying to get my thoughts out, and I’m thinking too fast, I stutter.
People don’t know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you’re slow or whatnot.
A large part of me becoming a performer was a make-or-break way of getting over that stutter. I sometimes wonder if, subliminally, that was part of the reason I got into the business, and the more I became a performer and grew in confidence, the less pronounced the stutter became.
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.
But now I’ve been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word ‘stutter’ is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I’d still stutter.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They’re not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There’s just regret.
When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn’t get a sentence out. Like, ‘D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.’ And that turned into a mumble.
I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor’s concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.
I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.
When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.
I don’t think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that’s just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that’s been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn’t stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
I had a stutter ’till… I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they ‘chat someone up’? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer’s biggest challenge.
