Hiroyuki Sanada Quotes

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

English is not my first language.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

I think my English is bad.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

I'm not very good at standard English.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.