Kerry Greenwood Quotes

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

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

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

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

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

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

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

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.

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.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

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

It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.