Antonio Banderas Quotes

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

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.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.

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

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

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I'm speaking with my relatives. I don't think it's very difficult for me to switch between each language because I've been doing it for so long.

I talk bilingual.

I wish I knew more languages.

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.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.