Quotes About Language

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

I remember people saying that Atletico wanted me, that they are a big team, and that it will be a big challenge for me. I don't know why, but I just felt really prepared for it, really confident. I went there and tried to do my best in training as well as learn the language really quickly. That was important, I think.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

We're actually more popular in the U.K.; they really get us, and in Australia. In the non-English speaking countries, they don't really get it.

I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.

I once dreamed that the word 'eight' was actually 'oat'.

I don't know what drippy means, but it's not very nice. To be drippy. I don't feel like I drip much at all.

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.