English Quotes

• English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Italian

• The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Truth
  • Hero

• There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an Anglo production, to cross over.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • American
  • Opinion
  • English

• Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

  

  John Ruskin
  • English
  • Artists
  • Ruined

• It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Violence
  • English
  • Guilty

• I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

  

  Alan Bradley
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Hand

• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Reading
  • Training
  • Arts

• When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries;it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Work
  • Great
  • High

• I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.

  

  Joachim Frank
  • Different
  • English
  • German

• I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Family
  • Something
  • Lessons

• I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.

  

  John Glover
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

  

  John Marshall
  • May
  • Father
  • Education

• I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Language

• Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

  

  Alex Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • English

• I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Look

• It is the nature of English society to do precisely that: to keep the lower classes low and raise the upper classes even higher.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Society
  • Raise
  • Classes

• The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Business
  • American
  • Start

• When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

  

  Emmanuelle Seigner
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Woman

• My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • World
  • American
  • War

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