Frantz Fanon Quotes

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

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

I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.

I was always influenced by language.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

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, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.