Raashi Khanna Quotes

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

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.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.

My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.