Quotes of: English-school Keyword

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

John Walker Lindh

Andrew Wyke: Wit in the face of adversity! Good! You've learned something from the English.

Sleuth

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Demian Bichir

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

Vinny Guadagnino

Michael: [teaching Apollonia to drive] It's safer to teach you English!

The Godfather

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I felt someone walk over my grave.

The Killer

Daniel Hochleitner: You are the Yankee they talk about? John Book: I thought I was the English.

Witness

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Max von Sydow

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Germaine Greer

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Stephen Rea

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Wilfrid Laurier

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Wally Schirra

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

Yaya Toure

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

Zia Haider Rahman

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Zadie Smith

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Natalie Massenet

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Olivier Martinez

School was not a place I enjoyed.

Sean Harris

I was a good student in school.

Kenan Thompson