Imperfect Speech Quotes

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

Not everything I say is elegant.

Come on, we're teenagers. Everything that comes out of our mouth is something that's off. You never say something that's perfect.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

I parle Francais like a Spanish cow.

As you know, on live TV, sometimes you don't always say things perfectly.

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.