John Blair Quotes

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.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

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.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

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.

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

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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.

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

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

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

I want my words to survive translation.

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.