Radhika Apte Quotes

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

Having worked in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil film industries, I've been lucky to have travelled far and wide for shoots.

I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.

I have worked in Telugu films. I found Bengali easier and sweeter than Telugu.

I have never wanted to leave Malayalam films.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

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.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

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

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy it as well, so let's start making music in English.

I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.