Eugenio Derbez Quotes

The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy in China. Like what world is that? I don't know how they would perceive art or sketch comedy. It's not a matter of intellect; it's a matter of language.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.

When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

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

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.

In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.