Martin Freeman Quotes

I jumped off a bridge in Italy, is that culturally insensitive? Is saying 'mamma mia' culturally insensitive?

There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be better than the American because you aren't American. You have to do your own stuff.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

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.

For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

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

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

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