Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

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

I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.

I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll still be like what, so now he's got me yellin. Man that tree is far away

Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

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

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

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

I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.