Language Variety Quotes

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.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that.

Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.

Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.

I want to do films in different languages because I want to tell stories in different genres.

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!