Quotes About Culture

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

Has my accent held me back? I don't believe it has at all. I think it can be a colourful accent.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and love and dream just like we do. That's not to say there are not a hell of a lot of problems in Africa. But there is also another side to that story.

When you say 'Hello Wembley!' you're not just saying hello to a large shed. You're saying, 'Hello, I'm following all the greats that have played here before.'

I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?'

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

I got accused of misrepresenting all people of colour in Great Britain. I would get told off a lot. 'How can you do African characters when you're not African?' But I gave it a go. Maybe if there had been more of us I could have just been Lenny Henry from the Black Country with Jamaican parents.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

My western heritage runs deep.

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.