Nicholas Brendon

“No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.”

“It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.”

“Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.”

“I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.”

“When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.”

“Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.”

“It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'”

“I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.”

“My brain is just always going and going and going.”

“I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.”

“I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.”

“I will always have a stutter.”

“I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.”

“As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'”

“I've had to work on being a slow talker.”

“I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .”