Olivier Martinez Quotes

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

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.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.