Dialect Quotes · Page 2

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

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

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

— David Sedaris

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

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

— William Labov

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

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

— Ferran Adria

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

“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can…

— Ralph Fletcher

(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially…

— Harry Reid

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I…

— John Lloyd Young

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect…

— David Oyelowo

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and…

— Yasmine Hamdan

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds…

— Jessica Hagedorn

There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated…

— Tituss Burgess

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French.…

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Julianne Moore

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

— Bayard Taylor

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

— Erica Jong

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

— Steven Pinker

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

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

— Kevin Bacon

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Harry Reid

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

— Emily Carr

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

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

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

— Tanikella Bharani

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets…

— Mireille Enos

I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I…

— Robin Atkin Downes

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American…

— Audra McDonald

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a…

— E. O. Wilson

“I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if…

— Charles Dickens

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the…

— Walt Whitman