John Lloyd Quotes

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

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

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Globalize yourself!

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

I talk bilingual.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

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.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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.

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

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.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.