Quotes About Culture

To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

To be honest, you go to a bat mitzvah in Los Angeles, and you can count on at least a few industry people to be there.

I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.

To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.

I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.

I'm just a product of the '90s, to be honest.

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.