Ashley Bell Quotes

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

I have a funny accent in every language.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

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

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

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.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

I love accents.

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.