Quotes About American

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was happy to be able to document the development of a real American hero.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

I love American muscle cars. It's my thing.

There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.

Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.

Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Because of ignorance, I wasn't a big fan of Marvel. I hadn't read the magazines. They were not as big in Europe as they are in the United States. They're more a part of modern American mythology. I know more about the original Thor than the Marvel Thor.

But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

With American blockbuster cinema, everything is very fast, there's a lot of action and narration.