[after someone speaks to him in Irish Gaelic] Boss Tweed: They don't speak English in New York any more?
Bridget von Hammersmark: I know this is a silly question before I ask it, but can you Americans speak any other language besides English?
Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I thought those I killed deserved to die. Now I believe everbody has the right to live.
Lee: I believe in justice, but nobody trusts me. Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I have the same problem.
Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Would you rather see me dead or set free? Lee: Neither, if fate spares us.
Lee: Do all killers have a sense of honor? Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): The world has changed. Honor is now a dirty word.
[Danny points a gun at Jeff] Lee: Don't move! Jennie: Who is it? Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): It's Dumbo. He's come to say bon voyage.
Lee: I wish I could have a friend like you. Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): You will, in the next life.
Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Don't hurt her, you maniac! Johnny Weng: No, I won't hurt her. I'll blow her head off!
Pu Yi, at 15: [in heavily accented English] I know that you know that I know that you know that that is a dialogue between Confucius and Chuang Tzu.
Ethan: A fella could mistake you for a half-breed. Martin: Not quite, I'm eighth Cherokee, the rest is Welsh and English. Least that's what they tell me.
Damien: Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. That what you call a martyr, is it, Teddy?
I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the bo...
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.
The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
