Character Quote by Derek Walcott

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out.…

— Jenny Slate

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

— Mandy Patinkin

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

— Derek Walcott

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I…

— Madison Davenport

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

— Jayne Meadows

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing…

— Ioan Gruffudd

That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would…

— Joan Baez

I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed…

— Trevor Noah

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really…

— Vicky McClure

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass…

— Henry David Thoreau