Quotes About Culture

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

In Italy I have learnt a lot, I have matured both as a man and as a player. I have lived the best years of my career here.

I don't think there's been that many indigenous players in Australia.

In Germany, it is normal, when games end, you shake hands with your players.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

When players come in and we talk to them about what it means to be a Miami Heat player, we point them at Udonis Haslem.

I think it's a good match, Dutch players playing in England.

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Every national side plays according to their characteristics and the kind of entertainment they like.

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights.

You do not always have to play in the Camp Nous and the Old Traffords and with pleasant climates. It's different experiences that you take in... that's also a part of football.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

When I was dealing with a lot of Iraqis, lies were constant; people constantly lied to you. It's a part of their culture. They wanted to please you so much, they were willing to lie to you to please you.