Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

Neither of my parents had English as a first language.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

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.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.