Mitch Hedberg Quotes

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

My name can't be that tough to pronounce!

One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

You must be loud but you must also be understandable. There’s no point in being loud if you can’t be understood.

Choose each word as a precision tool. Consider how it sounds, not how it reads.

I still have perfect diction!

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

He was yelling pretty urgently. There's different pitches of yell and he was screaming.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

This is unbearable how I talk.

For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's ‘jee-ah.’ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that ‘J.’ And then the ‘A-H’ kinda just flows.