American Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

— Jemima West

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

— Claire Tomalin

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

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why…

— Rinko Kikuchi

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father…

— Joanne Harris

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

— Aravind Adiga

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out…

— Guy Fieri

I was educated in London at Central Saint Martins and had this whole thing about getting together with a lot of international students. Twenty-three…

— Henrik Vibskov

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

— Tatiana Maslany

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

— Patrick Bamford