What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

I've always felt the easiest way to get to know a new culture is through its food even if you don't speak the language. Food will do it for you. It's a universal language.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to...

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our...

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I...

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the...

For Elektra, I just wanted to be very clear. She's traveled the world. She didn't go to boarding school, but that's the type of girl that she'd be. So, I just wanted to make sure that I could bring...

Though I can speak only bits and pieces of Gujarati, I can understand it completely.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

Let me make something clear: I can't do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a character. The body language of the character may make others laugh.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something...

For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

If you're going somewhere international, try to learn a little bit of the language. It goes a long way to be able to introduce yourself, ask for things, and even say hello to someone in a new country!

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Let's just say that most people, when learning a new language, are only interested in 'funny' words.

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

To the Tamil media, I have mostly interacted in English since I am not fluent in Tamil.

Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.