Quotes About Culture

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

New York basketball's been pretty good over the years.

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

At the end of the day, I am a Kathak dancer!

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

When you're out dancing, you could be anywhere in the world, but it's only the dance that matters.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.

I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.