English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between when I'm Tom and when I'm Conchita. Conchita uses very proper German; Tom talks in an Austrian… — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
“Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor.… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to… — David Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played.… — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages,… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
![“I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].” quote by Miles Teller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/042/miles-teller-7696_accents_i-just-really-enjoyed-all-that-kind-of-r_578805.jpg)
