Quotes About Culture

I am very proud of my family and my heritage and my history, and I'm also proud of my own achievements.

France has always fascinated me. It is a country that boasts of rich culture, heritage and of course, royalty.

I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works as a clerk, or whatever - and then, if you want to, to have that luxury to bring in the cultural heritage.

Gujarat has a rich culture and in my view every Indian should contribute to highlighting our heritage.

With Malaysian and Indian heritage, food is a big part of our culture and I am always cooking and always entertaining.

I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

I chose to write the kind of romance I love best - one with a sheikh hero.

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

For me, saying 'I love you' is the same as unbuttoning the heroine's kurti.

I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.

I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.

After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.

I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.

When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

If you are friends with someone, and you're like 'Hey, what ethnicity are you,' that's cool. But you wouldn't walk up to a white person and say, 'What kind of white are you?'

Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.

Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.