I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
