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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.