When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.
My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.
I was a terrible English student.
Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
t. A. T. u. did a Russian version of 'All The Things She Said' and it was even better than the English version!
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
. . . the English are very fond of being entertained, and. . . they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!
I excelled in English while I was at school.
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.
But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.