Guy Pearce Quotes

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This was a big help to me. Also, the people who were most cruel to me when I first came to America were black Americans. They made absolute fun of the way I talked, the way I dressed. I couldn't dance. The people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. So what can one make of that? Perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.

England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Immigrants themselves are largely responsible for any ill-feeling towards them, because they frequently contribute to prejudice and misunderstanding through their unawareness of Australian customs and standards.

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture...

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

People think that South Africa and Australia are culturally similar but, having worked in both environments, I found that theory to be untrue.

It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures.

I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

I didn't choose to be white, I didn't choose to be male, I didn't choose to be heterosexual, I didn't choose to be right-handed. Those are the givens of life. And I don't know why the church can't deal with that, why they can't understand that. Well, I do know why: because people are always afraid of anybody who's different.

I think people look at me and realize that I am definitely not in line to the throne. It feels very easy living in Great Britain. The world is a much smaller place than it used to be, it doesn't feel like a huge cultural difference living here.