Language quotes

“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“He doesn't speak English. If he does, it's with an accent thicker than sauerkraut sauce.”

Harry Styles - Alex

“- Florentino: He talkin' loco... crazy... somethin' about a sick horse comin' to get us.
- Johnny Ringo: That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English.”

Paul Ben-Victor - Florentino
Michael Biehn - Johnny Ringo

- Baby Groot: I am Groot.
- Yondu: What's that?
- Rocket: He says, "welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy". Only he didn't use "frickin'".
Vin Diesel - Baby Groot
Michael Rooker - Yondu
Bradley Cooper - Rocket

“- Toni: You know, I don't understand anything you are saying.
- Joel: Don't you speak French?
- Toni: Not your French.”
Valérie Quennessen - Toni
Miles Chapin - Joel

“- Bob: Look at her. Well?
- Larry: She's got, tits like a sparrow.
- Bob: Do you, have to talk like that?
- Larry: What are you, my mother?”

Billy Van Zandt - Bob
David Elliott - Larry Vaughn

“The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

“- Lt. Leak: Captain, uh... there must be some mistake. I'm supposed to be in a Texas unit. Most of these boys are from New York and I just don't understand a word these city fellers are sayin'.
- Capt. George McMurtry: You don't have to understand them Lieutenant, they have to understand you.”
Jay Rodan - Lt. Leak
Phil McKee - Capt. George McMurtry

“Jodia puta, te estoy comiendo el culo!”

Tyrese Gibson - Roman Pearce

“Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... there was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian.”

Ben Stiller - Sam Sweet

“- Bullet-Tooth Tony: A bookie's got blagged last night.
- Cousin Avi: Blagged? Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.”

Vinnie Jones - Bullet-Tooth Tony
Dennis Farina - Cousin Avi

“Hello, my family and I were looking for sex.”
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Pete Komisky: Okay, Thursday?
- Natalie Cook: [excited] My favorite day!
- Pete Komisky: Great. I'm gonna tickets.
- Natalie Cook: [still excited] I love tickets!
- Alex Munday: [over Walkie-Talkie] Whadda'ya know. A guy who speaks Natalie.”
Luke Wilson - Pete Komisky
Cameron Diaz - Natalie Cook

“Just because I talk with an accent doesn't mean I think with an accent.”
Giancarlo Giannini - Alberto Aragon

“Amy Abbott-What?
Ephram Brown-You're talking faster than my brain processes language.”

Gregory Smith - Ephram Brown
Emily VanCamp - Amy Abbott

“I’m cool dad, that’s my thing. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face.”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.”
Steve Carrell

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job".
J. K. Simmons - Fletcher

“Letters are symbols. They are building blocks of words which form our languages. Languages help us communicate. Even with complicated languages used by intelligent people, misunderstanding is a common occurrence. We write things down sometimes — letters, words — hoping they will serve us and those with whom we wish to communicate. Letters and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Catherine E. Coulson - Log Lady

“Fred-Ah, welcome to mi casa! It's French for 'front door'.
Honey Lemon-It's really... not.”
T.J. Miller - Fred
Genesis Rodriguez - Honey Lemon

“The English language can not fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I’m incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.”
Chelsea Peretti - Gina Linetti

“- Sir Lionel Frost: How do you speak English so well?
- The Elder: How do you speak English so well?
- Sir Lionel Frost: Well...
- The Elder: How do you know I'm not speaking Yeti?”
Hugh Jackman - Sir Lionel Frost
Emma Thompson - The Elder

“I made stories, legends. After all, what is language for? It's not just the naming of things, is it? It's the lifeblood of a culture, a people.”
Nicholas Hoult - J.R.R. Tolkien

“I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands.”
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.”
James Ransone