After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

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

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.