9 Movie Quotes about Diction (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: May 7, 2025

Memorable quotes about diction, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Does anybody understand what this duck is saying?

Daffy Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

2 And furthermore, you have to be understood. The judges must be able to understand you! Your diction must be perfect!

Lucy Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown

3 This is the last time I work with someone with a speech impediment.

Daffy Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

4 Say, you ought to do something about that speech impediment, sonny.

Gopher in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 Nice lisp. -My lisp isolates and elevates me, and makes me a rare specimen.

Eddie Deezen as Snipes in Rock-a-Doodle

6 He spoke in that elaborately choice French, in which our forefathers not only spoke, but thought. And with those slow patronizing intonations, peculiar to a man of importance who has grown old in court society.

Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

7 But while they're laughing and grab-assing, I'm chasing down leads and practicing my non-regional diction.

Quote from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

8 Oh, yes. Her diction was superb, just superb. I'll give you an imitation of her sometime singing 'Airy Fairy Pipers'.

Quote from The Danny Kaye Radio Show

9 I've got to lose five pounds. I've got to take lessons in singing and diction! And of course my complexion has got to be perfect!

Quote from The Thin Man (1936)