Language quotes

“- Jonathan Mardukas: Jahé, everybody, jahé
- Jack Walsh: What's that?
- Jonathan Mardukas: It means 'hello'. I can say 'hello' in a lot of different languages. Not yours, but a lot of them.”
Charles Grodin - Jonathan Mardukas
Robert De Niro - Jack Walsh

“- Laforgue: We have come to help you! We have been sent by our God, who is the God of us all!
- Montagnais: He can't speak properly.
- Chomina: They have their own tongue. It is like birds singing.
- Montagnais: Are they intelligent?
- Ougebmat: No.”

Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
Marco Bacon - Montagnais
August Schellenberg - Chomina
Billy Two Rivers - Ougebmat

“You speak the language pree-tty good... now what did you say to him?”

Loren Avedon - Scott Wylde

“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.”

Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“- Mallory: I don't suppose they taught you German at that awful school of yours?
- Miller: What, instead of Latin? Heaven forbid, old boy.”
Robert Shaw - Mallory
Edward Fox - Miller

- Mike Brady: You seem to be having quite an effect on Peter, Roy.
- Roy Martin: Well, it's like I always say: "Veni, Vidi, Vici. I came, I saw, I conquered".
- Mike Brady: Well, like I always say: "Caveat Emptor".
- Roy Martin: Doesn't that mean "Buyer Beware"?
- Mike Brady: Yes, yes, it does.
Gary Cole - Mike Brady
Tim Matheson - Roy Martin

“Mathematics is the only true universal language.”
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“I'm telling you something's going on here. I'm telling you something big is happening here, and all that grabs you is my language? What the fuck is the matter with you?”

Don Johnson - Jerry Beck

“She only speaks French, Roy. She doesn't speak imbecile.”

John Cusack - Lane Myer

“I could learn new languages to make you understood all over the world.”

Ewan McGregor - Jerome

“- Patch: That old Dirty Dawson! The yellow livered old skunk! I'd like to tear his gizzard out.
- Perdita: Why, Patch, where did you ever hear such talk? Certainly not from your mother!”
Mickey Maga - Patch
Cate Bauer - Perdita

“Hello, I want my book. Bonjour, je veux mon livre.”

Bette Midler - Winifred

“- Brad: We said the Phi Omega Gamma house, not the Kappa Delta sorority. Do you know the difference?
- Chris Romero: It's all Greek to me.”
Allan Kayser - Brad
Jason Lively - Chris

“The Jews taught me this great word: Schmuck. I was a schmuck, and now I'm not a schmuck!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Cheech: Want me to teach you some Spanish, man?
- Chong: Okay.
- Cheech: When you see a friend, you say, hey, how's it going, pendejo?”
Cheech Marin - Cheech
Tommy Chong - Chong

“- Ferris Bueller: Hi. Do you speak English?
- Garage Attendant: Uh, what country do you think this is?”
Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller
Richard Edson - Garage Attendant

- Harry Flugleman: Do you know what "nada" means?
- Dusty Bottoms: Isn't that a light chicken gravy?
Joe Mantegna - Harry Flugleman
Chevy Chase - Dusty Bottoms

“- Angelica: I already learned to parsley-boo Francie. That means speak French.
- Susie Carmichael: I feel bad for the French people who will hear you.”
Cheryl Chase - Angelica
Cree Summer - Susie Carmichael

“I like Mass better in Latin. It's nicer when you don't know what they're saying.”

Glynis Johns - Elsie

“I only speak two languages, English and bad English.”
Bruce Willis - Korben Dallas

“I sensed we had a long and difficult journey ahead of us. Perhaps weeks of waiting for a ship that will give us passage to England. I will try to teach John some rudimentary manners and a greater understanding of the language.”
Sir Ian Holm - Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

“Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.”
Charles Kay - Count Orsini-Rosenberg

You told me you met your wife on a motherfuckin' camping trip and that she was Puerto Rican. Your wife ain't no motherfuckin' Puerto Rican. I thought she was when I first met, because I walk up and say "Hello, good to meet you, my name is Vernon" and she says "Hi, I'm Bunny, goonie goo goo". What the fuck does "goonie goo goo" mean, Gus? I still... (continue)(continue reading)
Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy

“- David: How did you and Victoria come to speak Spanish?
- Sarah: It is what we speak at home.
- David: Oh, your family came from Spain?
- Sarah: Yes.
- David: Recently?
- Sarah: About 400 years.
- David: They must have some good memories.”
Tom Hanks - David
Cristina Marsillach - Sarah

“- Mrs. Caypor: Do you understand German, Mr. Marvin?
- Robert Marvin: No, but I speak it fluently.”
Florence Kahn - Mrs. Caypor
Robert Young - Robert Marvin