English Quotes
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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.
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Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
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Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.
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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.
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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
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I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
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English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
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My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
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A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
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It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
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I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
