Motsi Mabuse Quotes

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.

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

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.

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

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

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

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly.

For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.

I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different language, so it's not easy.

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

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.

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.

Honestly, every movie I do in America, the only challenge for me is English. I've done everything already, for me it's pretty easy. Only the 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.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.

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.

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.