I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.

I have always wondered why I don't get as many good roles in Malayalam as I do in other languages.

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

For an actress, the choices are more if one is open to the idea of doing films in different languages.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.

The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

I did Tamil film, 'Mehandi Circus.' I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.

I will do films in any of the languages, provided the script is good. The region and the language don't matter.

I'm indeed excited to be termed as a hero who can command commercial respect in two languages at the same time.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.

It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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