Dialect Quotes · Page 2

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

— David Crystal

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

— David Crystal

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

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

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

— Michelle Visage

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And…

— Anonymous

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex.…

— Seth MacFarlane

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth…

— Cory Michael Smith

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

— Robin Atkin Downes

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

— Mireille Enos

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

— Jessica Hagedorn

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

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive…

— Arthur Koestler

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

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

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with…

— Jerry Garcia

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I…

— Mark Twain

I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role,…

— Naturi Naughton

Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;…

— E. B. White

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

— Giannina Braschi

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

— Mani Ratnam

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

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

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

— Amrita Rao

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

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

— Emily Carr

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

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

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