Eugenio Derbez Quotes

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don't find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.