Quotes About Culture

I don't know why there is so much noise on doing intimate scenes.

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

It's so nice to be nominated for something by your culture, it's always very cool.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.

When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.

I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.