Quotes About Language

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

My mom was really good at swearing growing up.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.