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You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

Language is a nice way to remember things.