Quotes About Language

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

I can judge someone by body language and eyes.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

My daughter is married here in Patiala and I have shared a bond with Punjabi as a language.

When K. Balachander saw me for the first time, he booked me for three films and asked me to learn Tamil first.

I'm really bored by the constant vilifying of people (especially women) for things they didn't say.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Bottom line: this is the United States. And we speak English here.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

I'm interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I'm not working towards a career in it.

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.

I love the British.

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

I would think Australians would understand 'guy talk' better than most. Definitely better than Brits.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.