They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy;foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. (Alesi Jean)
Americans have different ways of saying things.They say "elevator", we say "lift" ...
they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git." (Alesi Jean)
It's an amazing thing, really, it's a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It's such a beautiful language too, it's really brilliant. (Alesi Jean)
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. (Alesi Jean)
My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back. (Alesi Jean)
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. (Alesi Jean)
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. (Alesi Jean)
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school? (Alesi Jean)
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny. (Alesi Jean)
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. (Alesi Jean)
Having parents with a Puerto Rican background and growing up in New York, I lost the Spanish language. (Alesi Jean)
Once I learned to speak in proper Spanish, I got great pride. (Alesi Jean)
My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care". (Alesi Jean)
I thought learning the languages was going to be the most difficult part. (Alesi Jean)
Then Mel talked about doing it in dead languages, Aramaic, old Hebrew and Latin; I had to get my mind around that. (Alesi Jean)
“I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call Nelson. He would always laugh and say he needed to be on my payroll.” (Alesi Jean)
The language you use, the writing is everything. (Alesi Jean)
I'm quite good at languages. We took The Power Book from the National in London to the Chaillot in Paris, and it was useful having lived in the city and learnt the language-though we performed in English. (Alesi Jean)
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. (Alesi Jean)
Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. (Alesi Jean)
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English. (Alesi Jean)
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