English Quotes
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
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We are living out the liberal dream of our founders. The Constitution, the very liberal document - we have gone beyond English common law, which was the basis of law in the West.
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I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
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Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.
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I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
