Quotes by Dialect Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them. John H. McWhorter dialectgreat-menblack I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer. John Lloyd Young dialectsingingactors Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak. Jon M. Chu dialectdancerdifferent Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages. Judith Lynne Hanna dialectlanguagedance A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard Kate Burridge dialectstandardscommunication I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself. Kevin Bacon dialectcharacter I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. Kunal Nayyar dialecttheatrehalf You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues. Lake Bell dialectvoicemouths I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. Liev Schreiber dialectreasontwo The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. Lister Sinclair dialectsyntaxvocabulary I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language. Luke Pasqualino dialectdaditalian An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. Mason Cooley dialectacademicliterature Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere. Noam Chomsky dialectlanguagethinking French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts. Patricia Hampl dialectessentialsmissing I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice. Robin Atkin Downes dialectvoicelucky The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth Rudyard Kipling dialectinsultinglanguage I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with. Scarlett Johansson dialectnever-quitactors I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures. Sharlto Copley dialectactorscharacter Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. Sterling K. Brown dialectspeechpeople Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said. Thomas Bailey Aldrich dialectcommunicationcare«123»
