Ken Venturi Quotes

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

I am stuck at 10 years old. I think.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

When I was young, I couldn't process emotions well.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I was christened 'Nigel.' It set me back for years.

There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.