Frances Mayes Quotes

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

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

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

I'm actually not from the United States. I'm from Uzbekistan.

Outside the pale of society, language is just as useless as an eye in darkness

I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Stick." I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made a slashing motion. "Stick. where?" He stared at me in utter confusion and then asked in perfect English, "why are you talking like that?

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't speak French. So suddenly I'm stuck onstage with Minnie and Mickey and everyone is yelling at me in French — I guess they're telling me to get off the stage, but I didn't know what they were saying at the time, so I start dancing with Minnie and Mickey like on the show and finally my aunt comes and gets me off.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.