Radhika Apte Quotes

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

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

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

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

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

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

If you're comfortable with who you are, it shows in your walk.

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.

I think I can finally say I am at my most confident and comfortable out there, physically.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.