Amanda Crew Quotes

Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but if you're not constantly craving breakfast every second of every day, you're not a real American. Y'know what, let's throw the Canadians in there, too.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

The French are known for their rudeness … but if you speak French … they get a lot more polite.

Something deep in the Canadian spirit compels us to avoid direct statement and skate around confrontation.

I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.

Japanese people, they're not really one to complain.

We Italians are always criticising ourselves.

I do think that working with Canadians, there is quite a sense of humility.

As a Canadian, we are sort of inherently built with an unshakable humility that at times can work against you.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.