Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Quotes

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

I went back to China and did a movie in Mandarin, and I don't speak Mandarin, so I learned it phonetically. Now, when I'm on set and somebody gives me English lines, I'm like, "Are you kidding? What's happening? This is amazing!"

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

There is no question that Korean footballers have the ability to play in Europe. The real challenge is whether they will be able to adapt to western culture.

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.

I was criticized a lot when I was singing in Korean. The producers and people from my agency would point out my accent and tones, and would tell me I sound too American to fit the local market.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

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.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

Things can be translated, but they become different.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.