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

- 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

“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

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

“- Aunt Alicia: Did you work hard in school today? What did you study?
- Gigi: History. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
- Aunt Alicia: How depressing. What else?
- Gigi: English.
- Aunt Alicia: English? I suppose we must. They refuse to learn French.”
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia
Leslie Caron - Gigi

“If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.”
Robby the Robot - Himself

“- Pope Francis: Speaking English is exhausting.
- Pope Benedict: Terrible language - so many exceptions to every rule”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“- Rocket Raccoon: You speak Groot?
- Thor: Yes, they taught it on Asgard. It was an elective.”
Bradley Cooper - Rocket
Chris Hemsworth - Thor

“The language is confusing but the actions are inimitable.”
Hugh Marlowe - Hank Entwhistle

- Gil: I like that nigger. Or is it - is it "nigga" with an A at the end, when you're saying it nice?
- Bradley Thomas: Don't think someone like you can say that word any way polite.

Marc Blucas - Gil
Vince Vaughn - Bradley Thomas

“- Mrs. Crockett: You're a long way from home, aren't you, Mr. Carpenter?
- Klaatu: How did you know?
- Mrs. Crockett: Oh, I can tell a New England accent a mile away.”
Edith Evanson - Mrs. Crockett
Michael Rennie - Klaatu

“Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here but it sounds better in French.”
Gene Kelly - Jerry Mulligan

“- Gloria: Don't be ridic'.
- Don Birnam: Gloria, please. Why imperil our friendship with these loathsome abbreviations?”
Doris Dowling - Gloria
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“I don't object to foreignersspeaking a foreign language. I just wish they'd all speak the same foreign language.”
Edward Andrews - J.J. Blodgett

“- Wang Chi-Yang: What language is he using? I have a feeling he has been disrespectful, but I am not sure.
- Madame Liang: No, no. That is American style slang.”
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang
Juanita Hall - Madame Liang

“There are two things that dance can never be again: beautiful and cheerful. Today, we need to break the nose of every beautiful thing. And if you're going to be a dancer, you must learn French.”

Tilda Swinton - Madame Blanc

“I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.”
Wagner Moura

“It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.”
Tom Cruise - Joel