Robert Englund Quotes

The guest to me was always paramount.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

You've got to listen to your guests.

In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.

If there is something that I respect about the Arabs, it's the fact that they never change their position.

Southern hospitality, that's where I come from.

I like to respect my customers.

Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

I am not an American. I am the American.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.