Quotes About Multilingual

I had a smooth take-off in Malayalam, I would like to explore more and take up films that are different in Tamil.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

While Bollywood still remains my priority, I always wanted to do regional cinema. There are so many people who don't know Hindi, so I decided to do regional films wherein even those who don't know me can see my work.

I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.

The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with bloom and blood, but he could do nothing.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

In 'Solo,' I play a girl, who is full of life. Since it is a bilingual, the character has two names in two languages.

Annoyance has made me bilingual.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

I speak German, Turkish and English perfectly. And I can communicate in Russian.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.

I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

Jacián!" She yells again, and then she says something in Spanish. A moment later he comes down the hallway. "I'm going to tell Grandfather you said that," he says. "What do you want?

Yes, I am a Bengali but I am sorry I can't converse in Bengali.

There are many Bollywood actresses who work in the South and speak Tamil or Malayalam, and though it is correct, we find it funny sometimes.