Quotes About Language

We've got to change the language of how women speak to women and how men speak to women and how we shame them for the decisions that we make.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

Our literature is in great shape.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

My family thought - and thinks - very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us and how it should shape us and change us.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Everyone I know has a predilection for sharing words.

'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

I speak Marathi fluently and even during shoots I make it a point to speak in the language for most of the time.

When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.

I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of my lovely dad who was constantly shouting at me for bad language.

People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word 'awesome' too much, but that's just me.

I know I've said, 'Do you know what I mean?' an awful lot, and every time I've said it, I've cringed inside.

My voice was awkward. I had a deep Texan accent.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

If you make a book which is little more than putting a television script on the page, and add a few pictures, that would be a bad thing. But I would never do that because I happen to be very interested in language, in writing.

There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for the reinstatement of the letter 't' and the banishment of the glottal stop.

Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

I barely speak English.

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.