Quotes About Language

I learned a lot from hanging out with Emmylou Harris. One of the biggest pointers she gave me was that if you don't know the words, drop the consonants: that way, you'll hide the sound.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes to our local language, we have comedy, emotion, hero buildups, etc., and the music for each will be different from the other.

Quite often people ask me 'Is there a word for... ' and go on to highlight a gap in our language that we need to fill.

When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.

English culture is highly literary-based.

People appreciate those who've enabled them to watch highly entertaining movies by demolishing the language barrier.

The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

English is my first language, but when I started shooting for 'Definition of Fear,' I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

In 'Godha,' I was a Punjabi girl and had Hindi, English and Punjabi dialogues.

'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All I am saying is that it would not be the same.

I used to like Mukeshji very much because his Hindi was excellent. It was very clear, and his pronunciation was excellent. No one could match that.

I haven't even grown up on Hindi films because my Hindi is bad; I am a Parsi and we speak English or Gujarati at home.

I love Hindi films.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

Hindi is far easier a language to pick up than Tamil.

I still have that South Indian accent. But I am working on it. Hindi audiences should feel that I am speaking like them and should relate to me.

Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?

When people heard my voice, they were shocked that I could speak Hindi.