Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

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

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.