Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

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

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

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.

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

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.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

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.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.