Lucy Liu Quotes

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

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 would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.

I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.

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

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

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.