Quotes About Culture

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

When people think Down South they think: 'They're not up on game,' or 'They ain't hip.'

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.

Atlanta is not the South.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

I love South Africa.

I've played all over the world. I've played in England, South Africa, Pakistan.

I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.