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Zitat des Tages über Diktion / Diction:

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction. Paul Robeson

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

Chuck Berry

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vivien Leigh

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

Paul Robeson

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

Kanye West

I still have perfect diction!

Aretha Franklin

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

Keyshawn Johnson

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Peter De Vries

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Donna Tartt

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

Tim O'Brien

I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

Walter Cronkite

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Alec Guinness

I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.

Miguel

I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.

Julie Andrews

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Djimon Hounsou

I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

Rakul Preet Singh

When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.

Christopher Moore

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Jason Fuchs