Language quotes

“- Carter: Did he say negro?
- Sister Agnes: He used the N word, but this time he mentioned your grandmother.
- Carter: You tell him that his mama's an H.
- Lee: Carter I believe whore is spelled with an W.”

Chris Tucker - Carter
Dana Ivey - Sister Agnes
Jackie Chan - Lee

“- Deanne McKenzie: Since when did you learn to speak Chinese?
- Kurt McKenzie: Just a little something I picked up watching a Chinese cooking show.
- Deanne McKenzie: That's great. Maybe you should focus a little less on the talking, and a little more on the cooking.”
Maya Rudolph - Deanne McKenzie
Chris Rock - Kurt McKenzie

“- Tony Stark: She's fluent in French, Italian, Russian, Latin. Who speaks Latin?
- Pepper Potts: No one speaks Latin. It's a dead language.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark
Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts

“- Hrundi V. Bakshi: Do you speak Hindustani?
- Michelle Monet: No.
- Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well, you are not missing anything.”
Peter Sellers - Hrundi V. Bakshi
Claudine Longet - Michelle Monet

“Their language has an idiosyncrasy of its own. It seems to consist mainly of clicking sounds.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
George Carlin

“A different language is a different vision of life.”
Federico Fellini

“- Michelle Monet: Do you speak French?
- Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well, just enough to get myself into trouble.”
Claudine Longet - Michelle Monet
Peter Sellers - Hrundi V. Bakshi

“- Tom: Listen, you get guests here from all over the world, it's up to you to have some American on your signs.
- Sarah: He means English.”
Ashton Kutcher - Tom
Brittany Murphy - Sarah

“- Sly:I think that if you're going to talk so much out of your ass, maybe you should wear a bow-tie on your butt!
- Basil: A bow-tie on her butt? That's disgusting, Sylvester!
- Teddie: Your syntax is interesting.
- Basil: It's because he watches television all the time. Nice language, Sylvester.”
Leo Fitzgerald - Sly
Connor Leggett - Basil
Amanda Fein - Teddie

“- Jason Tripitikas: I can't understand you.
- Lu Yan: [in English, when he previously spoke in a Chinese dialect] That's because you're not listening!”
Michael Angarano - Jason Tripitikas
Jackie Chan - Lu Yan

“You are here to learn the mysteries of Kung Fu, not linguistics. If you can't understand me, I will communicate with you like I would a dog! When I yell, when I point, when I beat you with my stick!”

Chia-Hui Liu - Pai Mei

“My English is not very much but my friendship for you is very much.”

Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

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

“- Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
- Doc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.”

Harry Carey Jr. - Marshal Fred White
Val Kilmer - Doc Holliday

“- Berke Landers: Striker, I'd be careful with that accent if I were you. Because you're beginning to sound a lot like Mary Poppins.
- Striker: Look, I don't know what you are blathering about, but if I were you...
- Berke Landers: Are you wearing makeup?”
Ben Foster - Berke Landers
Shane West - Bentley 'Striker' Scrumfeld

“You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.”

Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“- Terry Randall: I see that, in addition to your other charms, you have that insolence generated by an inferior upbringing.
- Jean Maitland: Hmm! Fancy clothes, fancy language and everything!
- Terry Randall: Unfortunately, I learned to speak English correctly.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall
Ginger Rogers - Jean Maitland

“- Ms. Kawasaki: He wants you to turn and look in camera. Okay?
- Bob Harris: Is that all he said?”

Akiko Takeshita - Ms. Kawasaki
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“- Daisy Kincaid: What's your aversion to proper grammar?
- Brady Kincaid: Rhythm maybe.”
Susan Sarandon - Daisy
Edward Norton - Brady Kincaid

This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that "cellar door" is the most beautiful.
Drew Barrymore - Karen Pomeroy

“- Stu: You are a fucking moron!
- Alan: Your language is offensive.
- Stu: Fuck you!”
Ed Helms - Stu
Zach Galifianakis - Alan

- Sgt. Toomey: I'm tellin' you, we don't have any "bathrooms" on this base. Do you doubt my veracity?
- Arnold B. Epstein: No, sergeant.
- Sgt. Toomey: Then you've got a problem, don't you Epstein?
- Arnold B. Epstein: Ho ho.
- Sgt. Toomey: You bet your ass “ho ho”. You know why you've got a problem?
- Arnold B. Epstein: Because I've got to go... (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Walken - Sgt. Toomey
Corey Parker - Arnold B. Epstein

“- Mrs. Marcus: Where did you get that funny accent? Are you from Harvard or something?
- J. Algernon Hawthorne: Harvard? Rather not. I'm English.
- Mrs. Marcus: Sounds so foreign.”
Ethel Merman - Mrs. Marcus

“- George Noon: I may look tough and mean-spirited but I'm really a sensitive artist.
- Tomomi: That's very interesting.
- George Noon: I paint, and I sculpt with my hands.
- Tomomi: That's very interesting too.
- George Noon: You have no idea what I'm saying, do you?
- Tomomi: That's very interesting.”
Dian Bachar - George Noon
Tomomi - Tomomi