Quotes About Language

I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Accents aren't accents, they're language It's almost like a code. Because that's the key to who you are: it's how you express who you are. And how you express who you are is how you speak.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I'm good at listening to people's problems.

I want to speak Spanish fluently; that's on my bucket list.

I can speak English, Hindi and Bangla.

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.