Spanish Quotes · Page 17

From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

— Ailyn Perez

I'm French, and no one really knows that unless I tell them. So, I can speak French; that's my secret talent.

— Emma Mackey

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

— Roy Hodgson

Alec's Spanish is getting better and better. His accent is very good.

— Hilaria Baldwin

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

— Patrick J. Adams

I don't see a Spanish song being No. 1 on the Hot 100. I mean, if it happens, fantastic. But I don't…

— Nicky Jam

“A brick could be translated into Spanish, and then used to landscape a lawn.
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— Jarod Kintz

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

— David Henry Hwang

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I…

— Edgar Ramirez

“Que se jodan.'It was as if the girl had summed up, in three words, the way Spanish regions really feel about each…

— Phil Ball

My intention is not to be an American TV personality. My intention is not to be a Spanish TV personality. My intention…

— Hilaria Baldwin

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of…

— Salma Hayek

When I went to school, I didn't know a lick of English, but it was okay because there were so many immigrants…

— Jessie Reyez

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to…

— Max von Sydow

There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican.…

— Torrey DeVitto

“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was…

— Yann Martel

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I…

— Adam Sandler

Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't…

— Brian Regan

I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream…

— J Balvin

You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read…

— Junot Diaz

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But…

— David Dewhurst

As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I…

— Julia Alvarez

“Spanish, huh?" he said, glancing down at the scattered papers as he grabbed them. "Can you say anything interesting?" " El tono…

— Kody Keplinger

English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

— Joseph Brodsky

I'm not a massive basketball fan but I follow some of the Spanish players.

— Marcos Alonso

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.

— Michael Portillo

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I talks broken English , writes grammatically wrong English . Who cares ? I'm proud to be Malaysian since forever !

— TheTowraMowra

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do…

— Fabio Lanzoni

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

— Romeo Santos

I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.

— Ricky Rubio

I do not speak Malayalam and am putting strenuous effort in developing command over the language.

— Sherlyn Chopra

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

— Eddie Vedder

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

— Jerry Coleman

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

— Stephen King

“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.”

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

— Laila Lalami

Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.

— Taboo

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear…

— Clint Eastwood