Tony Scott Quotes

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

English is not my first language.

I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.