People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
Kristin Scott Thomas

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
Cher

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
Sean Connery

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
Sean Connery

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
Sean Connery

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.
Dennis Miller

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Raymond Chandler

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
Leon Uris

I was a terrible English student.
Leon Uris

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
Elton John

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

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.
Tony Dungy