Speech Impairment Quotes

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

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.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

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

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

When my lips are dry, I can't smile, I can't talk - it's debilitating!

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

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.

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.