Dialect Quotes · Page 2

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

— Joseph Jacobs

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

— Lister Sinclair

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

— Robin Tunney

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

— Liev Schreiber

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

— Kunal Nayyar

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

— William Labov

I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more…

— Rajkumar Hirani

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

— David Sedaris

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations…

— Andrew Scott

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd…

— Martin Henderson

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the…

— David Tang

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So…

— Emily Carr

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not…

— William Labov

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the…

— Chinua Achebe

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and…

— Scarlett Johansson

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a…

— Patricia Hampl

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can…

— Daniel Alarcon

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If…

— Juno Temple

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches.…

— Forest Whitaker

Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different…

— Steven Pinker

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys…

— Erica Jong

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came…

— Bayard Taylor

Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But…

— Julianne Moore

We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Donal Logue

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

— Steven Caple Jr

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.

— Mitch McConnell

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

— Tanikella Bharani

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

— Jack Nicholson

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

— Giannina Braschi

I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.

— Michelle Visage

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've…

— Brion James

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

— Jodi Picoult

'Welcome...' was a challenging role for me. Be it the look or the dialect, every bit of it was new and exciting.

— Amrita Rao

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

— Emily Carr

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

— Emily Carr

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

— Harry Reid

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

— Mason Cooley

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects…

— Ferran Adria