Max Minghella Quotes

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

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

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Fact is, given a choice to erase or embrace Western popular culture, most Muslims would gleefully embrace it.

It is often not even wise to try to make an American of the best of aliens.

The customs of the [Khmer] barbarians are so different from our own that even if we were to capture all their territory, it would not be certain that we could change them.

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

I grew up in the States, but I go back to Brazil quite often, and a big part of me is very Brazilian, so there's a constant struggle between the two cultures within me. They're very different approaches to life.

Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.

A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.

When I came to India, it's just a different country, but the culture was same that I grew up in.

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things.

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

The English are very exotic to me.