Language Expression Quotes

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

I think it's somewhere in my head, in my travel space, and it just comes out. It's a visual thing that happens unintentionally. People will tell me, "You do realize you just spoke with that accent, right?" And I'll go, "Oh, did I?" So it's not something I think about. As we talk, I have a visual about my speech and it just comes out like that. If that makes any sense!

They [the Americans] certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.