Steve Martin Quotes

I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.

As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

I read French much better than I speak.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

I work, play and do everything in French.

I have a funny accent in every language.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

The French are known for their rudeness … but if you speak French … they get a lot more polite.

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.