Tom Hooper Quotes

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

In London, people don't make eye contact; it's almost too provocative.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.

People in England have a lot of respect. It is relaxed here.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Janies lips part in surprise. She takes it. Feels really strange about opening it in front of him. She wets her lips and examines the box and the ribbon that surounds it. "Thank you." She says softly. "Um..." He clears his throat, "The gift, see is actually inside the box. The box is like an extra bonus gift.It's how we do things here on planet Earth.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.