Chow Yun-Fat Quotes

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

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

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

I love accents.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

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

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

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

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

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.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

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

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.