Robert Lepage Quotes

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

Learning Japanese was certainly a task, but my passion for the culture, as well as my will to communicate with fans and friends, always encouraged me to continue.

It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.