Speech Practice Quotes

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

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.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.

I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, even if you exercise, you'll play kickball one day, and then you're like, 'Wait, I run, but new places are hurting because I don't use my muscles this way.' My mouth was not used to making these sounds.

A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare it to other musicians.

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Monologues are fun.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.