Sid Vicious Quotes

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.

British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to find that the Russian family that I'd been told was so different from the American family, was exactly the same.

I hope I can get to more and more of the Chinese audience and kind of lead the way to maybe, y'know, inspire seems like a big word, but y'know... inspire to get people into entertainment because I think we can be just as good as anybody else.

Film and television are major vehicles for American storytelling, and America is the biggest exporter and influencer in the world in terms of telling stories.

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

I don't work any different in Japan than I do in the U.S. Some guys do, but if you're entertaining, you're entertaining, and if you're not, you're not, and that plays worldwide.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.