We inhabit a language rather than a country.
At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.
I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
French was my first language.
My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.
One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
My accent depends on whom I'm around.
When California passes a law saying that English is the official language, it can only mean one thing: That English is no longer the official language.
All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.
Languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.
A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.
I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic limbo between the two. They don't really have a language, and are, in some deep sense, homeless.
My first language is Gaelic.
Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.
The German language is the organ among the languages.
