Sophie Marceau Quotes

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

English is not my first language.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

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

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

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.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

Be it Hindi or Hinglish, Zee was never and will never be speechless.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

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 am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.