Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?
For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even though it sounds odd. "My father emotioned me. " Or "That performance really emotioned to me. "
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.
And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
I think it [Trouble In Mind] was the only time Divine didn't appear in drag, or certainly one of the few times, anyway. Alan created a time and place that was no time and no place, so it was not identifiable with any particular period or any particular city or any particular country, for that matter. I mean, everybody spoke English, but that was about it. So you couldn't pigeonhole that film.
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.
My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
I think my English is bad.
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.
I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.