Guenther Steiner Quotes

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.

English is not my language.

I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue.

One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school.

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

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

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

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.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

The illiteracy test will bear most heavily upon the Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asiatics, and very lightly, or not at all, upon English-speaking emigrants and Germans, Scandinavians, and French. In other words, the races most affected by the illiteracy test are those…with which the English-speaking people have never hitherto assimilated, and who are the most alien to the great body of the people of the United States.

Foreigner: A person whose native language is not English.

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

I got my first job by exceeding expectations.

I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.

I got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.