Rowan Atkinson
“It comes and goes. I find when I play a character other than myself, the stammering disappears. That may have been some of the inspiration for pursuing the career I did.”
Emily Blunt
“I was a smart kid, and had a lot to say, but I just couldn’t say it. It would just haunt me. I never thought I’d be able to sit and talk to someone like I’m talking to you right now.”
Samuel L. Jackson
“It manifests itself more when I read than when I talk,” “I have no idea why. Denzel stuttered. James Earl Jones stuttered. There are still days when I have my n-n-n days or r-r-r days. I try to find another word.”
Nicole Kidman
"I am very shy – really shy – I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness,”
Kendrick Lamar
“As a kid, I used to stutter, I think that’s why I put my energy into making music.”
Elvis Presley
“He always seemed nervous. He could never completely sit still,” Morgan said. “He stuttered but not to the point you couldn’t understand him. It was like, ‘Ah…ah…ah.’”
Ed Sheeran
“The thing that I found most difficult about it was knowing what to say but not really being able to express it in the right way. Work through it and get the treatment that you want to get, but … don’t see it as a plight on your life, and carry on pushing forward.”
Bruce Willis
“I could hardly talk. It took me three minutes to complete a sentence. It was crushing for anyone who wanted to express themselves, who wanted to be heard and couldn’t. It was frightening. Yet, when I became another character, in a play, I lost the stutter. It was phenomenal.”
Shaquille O’Neal
“I know the teacher is going to call on me and I’m going to stutter and everyone is going to laugh at me. I still stutter to this day, But I’m more cool with it now.”
Tiger Woods
“the words got lost somewhere between the brain and the mouth, and it was very difficult. But I fought through it. I went to school to try and get over that, and I would just work my tail off.”
Joe Biden
“I never had professional therapy, but a couple of nuns taught me to put a cadence to my speaking, and that's why I spent so much time reading poetry – Emerson and Yeats. Don’t let your learning disability define you. I promise you – you have nothing to be ashamed of, and you have every reason to be proud.”
King George
King George VI, who reigned from 1937 until his death in 1952, has been depicted among the prominent people on the Foundation’s list of famous people who stutter.