Quotes About Culture

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Incredible to think isn't it, that every single Scotsman, started off as a scotch egg. Old and gingery.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

When I die, so does hip hop.

Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.