Quotes About Language

How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?

I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere else to go. It consoles me for everything. For me, the language no longer belongs to the colonialists.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.

The good thing about the audience in Karnataka is we watch films in all languages from every region.

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

I've pretty much played every regional accent you can play in the U.K. I've played German, French, Arabic; I've been Jordanian, Lebanese. I've covered a lot of ground.

Regional films have a great impact on the audience, especially because of the proximity of the language with the people.

I'm open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama.

If given an opportunity I would act in regional films.

Bhojpuri industry is my motherland, and I would keep doing more regional films. But I also want to reach out to a bigger audience.

We need to understand that we've divided our country in language based states. So what happens is that more regional parties come in the front and different opinions don't let any one particular strong decision to pass through.

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.