English Quotes
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The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
Anthony Hopkins
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My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
Jeremy Bulloch
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I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'
Alvaro Enrigue
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My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'
Andrea Navedo
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Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.
Lily Collins
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc
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I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.
Masahiro Tanaka
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
Luke Ford
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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
Annette Bening
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On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
Paul Weller
Incognito
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I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
John Cho
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Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
John Shadegg
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'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'
Kurt Vonnegut
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Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I was at school with my friends, was very English, and then I'd go home to another country, with exotic foods and colours. I have a sense of colour pairings, and that came from my background, I think.
Edward Enninful
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
Anne Carson
