Saba Qamar Quotes

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.

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

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

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

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

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

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

If you're talking about industry, I've never restricted myself to Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, or Kannada. Whichever the language is, from Swahili to Marathi or Bhojpuri to Bengali, I would be happy to do it.

I'm always afraid to act when I don't know the language and it perturbs me during my dubbing sessions too.

I have worked really hard to reach where I am - I worked hard on my Hindi and diction because I am a Parsi and Hindi is not my strong point, and I've also learnt Tamil and Telugu because I want to get my lines right. I want to be known as a performer.

I know how difficult it is to learn languages, since I am working in three regional industries in South India, and unless the director wants my voice to be dubbed, I do my own dubbing.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

Post-'Pellichoopulu,' I received a lot of offers from Tamil industry. I decided I won't do a Tamil film unless I know the language. If I want to do it, I wanted to do it perfectly.

In fact, I learnt Hindi over a period of time after I started doing TV shows.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.