Language Problem Quotes

For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready.

[Referring to immigrants:] They're all over the place, and they don't speak English. Do we want more of this?

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

I barely speak English.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.