Mahesh Babu Quotes

I spoke Franglais growing up.

Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

I am an Indian to the core.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

I am a typical Telugu boy dominated by all the qualities of a Hyderabadi because I was born and brought up here.

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.

Being a Telugu girl, my heart always roots for Tollywood.

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak a word of English. Within a few months I lost all my Urdu and spoke only English and then I learned Urdu all over again when I was nine. Urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my English and it's sort of become my third language. English is my best language but was the second language I learned.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

There is always a question that arises asking if am a Tamilan. I am 66 years old now. I had been in Karnataka only for 23 years; for the remaining 44 years of my life, I have been in Tamil Nadu with the Tamil people.

I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy it as well, so let's start making music in English.

I am born and brought up in Mumbai. I have grown up watching Hindi films. So I belong here, I feel.

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

I spoke in Tamil at home and ate dosa and idli.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

The one thing I won't do is sacrifice my Indian identity in my music, my clothing choices. It's something I tried to hide growing up, and I would never do that again because it's such a big part of me and I'm very proud of it.

Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.