I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
When you begin to speak for a nation as big as ours, it seems to me that any one individual is undertaking an extremely difficult piece of work.
Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.
I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
Honestly, every movie I do in America, the only challenge for me is English. I've done everything already, for me it's pretty easy. Only the English.
I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
I'm too tired to speak in English.
At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.
I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.
I'm bad with speaking. I ramble a lot.
No one can understand my accent!
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.
