Dulquer Salmaan Quotes

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

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

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.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.'

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

To the Tamil media, I have mostly interacted in English since I am not fluent in Tamil.

I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie.

There are many Bollywood actresses who work in the South and speak Tamil or Malayalam, and though it is correct, we find it funny sometimes.

English is my first language, but when I started shooting for 'Definition of Fear,' I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly.

English is not my language.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.