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

“- 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

“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

“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

“- 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