Sonakshi Sinha Quotes

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

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

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.

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

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 cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

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

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

It's hard when you are trying to ingratiate yourself in a completely foreign world. It takes a long time.

Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We speak only Hindi, but we premiere in Germany and Japan. Our films do phenomenally well there. We transcend the barriers of language and culture. We welcome you in. I think that's what art should be, and I hope America reaches that place.

Our Japanese fans don't speak English primary. They'll translate a sentence before coming and say something like, 'Thank you for coming to our country.' It's like, you're welcome. Thanks for coming to our show!

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They had to jump into a new community and really learn English, assimilate, and adapt - and I saw that. I grew up in that community.

Even my first film Poda Podi' was supposed to be remade in Telugu. That was an experimental film.

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.