Quotes About Language

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

Earlier, directors shied away from having a character speak in the Telangana dialect but not anymore.

It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.

I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also very different, and so is the language and dialect.

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

Good dialogue is very important.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I love writing Scottish dialogue.

I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.

Dialogue is what I like doing. It's what I am good at doing.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.