Quotes About Culture

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

Shame is something that's man-made.

There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

Our literature is in great shape.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

Culture should be shared, not hoarded.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.