Tommy Ramone Quotes

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I have a funny accent in every language.

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

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

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.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

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.

Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.

I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

When I went to school, I didn't know a lick of English, but it was okay because there were so many immigrants in the area, a lot of the kids didn't speak a lick of English, either. It was normal to have a wicked accent.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It's kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge for my family.

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

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.

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