Language quotes

“- Cry-Baby: I can sing pretty good.
- Mrs. Vernon-Williams: Well,'not 'good'. Haven't you ever heard of the English language?”
Johnny Depp - Cry-Baby
Polly Bergen - Mrs. Vernon-Williams

“- Rat: How many languages do you speak?
- Zimsky: Five, actually.
- Rat: I speak one... One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. Any country, any place, any time I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried.”
DJ Qualls - Rat
Stanley Tucci - Zimsky

“- Dave: Did you know that fly in Italian is 'mosca'?
- Dad: Did you know in English it's 'pest'?”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Paul Dooley - Dad

“- Arpid: Stop! Stop, listen to me! I am a high priest of Set! Spare me, and I shall bless thee in five different languages!
- Torturer: You'll scream in five different languages, horse thief.”

Grant Heslov - Arpid
Nils Allen Stewart - Torturer

“- Lynne Wood: What the hell was that?
- Mama: Sounded like some sort of animal.
- Lynne Wood: Yeah well, if animals around here are smart enough to run radios we're up shitcreek without a paddle.
- Mama: You know you never used language like that before you moved to New York City.”
Dee Wallace - Lynne Wood
Cordy Clark - Mama

“Always resort to your native tongue in times of anger. And in times of ecstasy.”

Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Ethel Carter: Watch your language. And you watch your heart, too. You know what Dr. Springer said.
- Big Bob Carter: Well, Dr. Springer can take his stethoscope and shove it... into his little black bag. Sideways.”
Virginia Vincent - Ethel Carter
Russ Grieve - Big Bob Carter

I can sum up our entire philosophy with this glass. I can look at it and say it's half-full, which in the beauty pageant biz means "where the hell's my waiter?".
Nora Dunn - Colleen Douglas, State Pagent

“- Gang Kid: Ya gotta problem? Lozer?
- Franck Eggelhoffer: No we do not have a problem, so leaf us alone!
- Gang Kid: Leaf? What are you? A tree?”
Rodrigo Botero - Gang Kid
Martin Hayter Short - Franck Eggelhoffer

- Spock: Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors, "double dumb-ass on you" and so forth.
- Kirk: Oh, you mean the profanity?
- Spock: Yes.
- Kirk: Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word.
Leonard Nimoy - Spock
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“- Juror #10: The kid's a punk, he don't even speak good English!
- Juror #11: He doesn't even speak good English.”
Mykelti Williamson - Juror #10
Edward James Olmos - Juror #11

“- Daryle: Think of all the clothes I could have bought in Europe!
- Billy: Ahh forget it. None of us speak European anyway...”
Julia Roberts - Daryle
Britta Phillips - Billy

Two brothers... One speaks no English, the other learned English from watching "The Wide World of Sports." So you tell me... which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell?
John Cusack - Lane Myer

“- Ron Burgundy: Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.
- Veronica Corningstone: No, there's no way that's correct.
- Ron Burgundy: I'm sorry, I was trying to impress you.”
Will Ferrell - Ron Burgundy
Christina Applegate - Veronica Corningstone

“You wanna put that in English for those of us who don't speak Spy?”

Denise Richards - Dr. Christmas Jones

“- Maxwell Smart: Just our luck, we gotta run into a poisonous Achtung.
- Agent 34: That means attention. There has been an avalanche.”

Don Adams - Maxwell Smart
Sylvia Kristel - Agent 34

“- Roy O'Bannon: It's just a rock with some gibberish on it!
- Chon Wang: It's Chinese!”

Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang

“- Brucey Madison: You thinking about moving out here, Pop?
- Oscar Madison: To where? Santa Yosinta-Malienta-Poliguenta? I'm not gonna learn another language just to find my way home at night.”
Jonathan Silverman - Brucey Madison
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“- White Goodman: Donde está la biblioteca, Pedro?
- Peter La Fleur: White?
- White Goodman: We're opening a new Globo Gym in Mexico City, so I've been boning up on my Spanish.”
Ben Stiller - White Goodman
Vince Vaughn - Peter La Fleur

“Ladies and gentlemen, it's just gibberish. Gibberish of an insane person.”
Harry Shearer - Dog Announcer

“I try not to live in past, only present tense since I come to America.”

Tony Shalhoub - Misha Vilyenkov

“- Librarian: La Muerte Roja, that's Spanish. It means the Red Death.
- Osmosis Jones: The Red Death? What's that? Some kind of taco sauce?”
Chris Rock - Osmosis Jones

- 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'

- Anthony Fait: You read Chinese?
- Archie: No, but I know "cop" in every language.
DMX - Anthony Fait
Tom Arnold - Archie

“- Huck Finn: What in hell's bells are you supposed to be?
- Jim: The King said I was a Swahili warrior. He even taught me some Swahili or what he said was Swahili. Sounded like a pig in heat to me.”

Elijah Wood - Huck Finn
Courtney B. Vance - Jim