“I don’t know how I’m sitting here right now speaking English.”

We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods.

I really don’t watch what I eat. It’s not like you have #‎ Christmas every day!

When I get older, I don’t think I’ll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.

In Brazil, there isn’t just one beauty ideal.

The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun.

But after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.

But we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.

Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves.

Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe.

You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you’re young, you don’t know how to defend yourself.

I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone.

I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures.

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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

I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.

I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

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.

It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.

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