Quotes About Culture

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

You have to have something about you to perform in Scotland. I'm sure these foreign players are excellent but we don't know how they're going to perform.

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

I'm as Scottish as they come.

I still feel very Scottish.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

I'm Scottish, but I also feel British at that same time.

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

I thought I was the only black Scottish person in the world.

My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.

The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.

I've always had far too much emotion to be Scottish.

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me. There were no black Scottish role models.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

A lot of times the thoughts of religion are not all bibliocentric, sometimes they're cultural. Then it becomes cultural to say, 'it's wrong to do this and it's wrong to do that.' It becomes a misinterpretation of scripture.

The seafood in England is sad.

In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood.

I loved the Four Seasons in Cairo.

Bengal is a very important seat of cinema for me. I can't even think of giving it all up.