- Mia: Shut up!
- Queen Clarisse Renaldi: I beg your pardon, "Shut up"?
- Consulate Maitre D' : Oh, your majesty, in America, it doesn't always mean to be quiet. Here it could mean "Wow, gee whiz, golly wolly"...
Anne Hathaway - Mia Thermopolis
Julie Andrews - Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Joe Ross - Consulate Maitre D'

Listen to this: I'm coming out of the bathroom, right, and these two Orientals, they're arguin', they're hollerin', they're screaming at one another. And all in Japanese. So I told 'em, I said: "Ay! You're in America now, speak Spanish".
Joe Viterelli - Joe

“There even are places where English completely disappears; in America they haven't used it for years.”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins

“You may not have learned much French today, but I think you have learned a little patience and tolerance and that is the same in every language.”
Bette Davis - Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

“Zigzag. That means he wants to talk peace. You zigzag out to meet him.”
John Carradine - Porter Rockwell