About Quote by Simon McBurney

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those…

— Mark Twain

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

— Eugene Schwartz

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance,…

— Chika Anadu

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

— Ian Shoales

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

— Sophie Marceau

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

— Meg Cabot

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America.…

— Mark Twain

all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the…

— Olivia de Havilland

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of…

— Bernard Pivot

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,…

— Bernard Pivot

“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we…

— Stephen Fry