Quotes About Culture

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

We are not white-skinned, we are not like them. We do not look like them. Why do we need to act in Hollywood movies? And I don't even think that Indian actors here want to do English movies.

I love Indian wear and I think no one can beat the masterpieces our Indian designers and craftsmen create.

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

I am extremely proud to have the surname Ambani. I am proud to be a Gujarati, and above all, an extremely proud Indian.

I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.