George Stigler Quotes

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.

I feel that, particularly because of language, we are handicapped in getting a large world audience. But Hindi cinema has the same ingredients that appeal to the whole world.

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful. Arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the United States and the West.

I've had fans coming up to me and speaking Chinese or Japanese. It's not a case of mistaken nationality. I just don't think they realise that we don't all speak the same language.

Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.