Darci Lynne Farmer Quotes

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps - lisps always been cool!

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

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

'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

I can do accents really well.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

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

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

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.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.