Quotes About Culture

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

I don't know if there's anything intrinsically funny about Tae Kwon Do.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

Some people come up to me and say "You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia" And I say "Well, here in America, you're annoying..."

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

The British are so funny.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.