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The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

I will always have a stutter.

I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.