Quotes About Communication

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the 'r' sound.

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.

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

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.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

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.

I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.

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.

I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.

Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.