Quotes About Culture

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

Africa's not a color - it's a place.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

I love the colorful buildings in Jaipur.

Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.

I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

I'm proud of my colour, I'm proud of my skin, I'm proud of who I am.

I would say 'The Big Narstie Show' is the United Colours of Benetton; it's for everyone. But I would definitely say that it has a black appeal, because that's what I am.

India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.

I love to travel and I love to teach, so I combined the two.

I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese comedian - but at the same time embracing my voice and who I am and what makes me unique, you know, which is the racial background.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

If the show is going really well and the comedian is still annoyed with the audience, chances are he's a Boston comic. That's the beauty of Boston comics.

Either you're a political comedian or you're a stand-up. Just talking about politics isn't enough. People who talk about airplane food, you don't call them airplane comedians.

Comedy was never a scarcity in Kollywood. Comedians of great calibre have emerged from this land.

I grew up on Abdul Halim Hafez and Esmail Yassine, a great comedic actor. I think Adel Imam also changed and revolutionised the game and comedy in Egypt.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.