Diego Luna Quotes

I've pretty much played every regional accent you can play in the U.K. I've played German, French, Arabic; I've been Jordanian, Lebanese. I've covered a lot of ground.

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

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

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

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

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

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 can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

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

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

I'm happy to work in Malayalam.

I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.