Anything Quote by Jinkx Monsoon

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually…

— Antonio Banderas

I was so glad that I was able to use my skills of speaking Chinese in a film where the character is Chinese, because…

— Fala Chen

I went back to China and did a movie in Mandarin, and I don't speak Mandarin, so I learned it phonetically. Now, when I'm…

— Maggie Q

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

— Ethan Coen

I guess it wasn't really part of my story on 'Drag Race' but I'm a trained actor and singer.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Not only do I look at the playback with the actors, but I look at the on-set assembly footage with the sequences with my…

— Park Chan-wook

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've…

— Scarlett Johansson

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used…

— J Balvin

I'm Korean American. I speak Korean, but it's not something that was on my vision board if I'm going to do a movie that…

— Greta Lee

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean…

— Paul Downs Colaizzo