Toby Jones Quotes

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

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

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.

Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for experiences over just retail.

If you don't see culture in Los Angeles, you're simply not looking.

London's got less of a group identity because it's a melting pot and it's bigger. Whereas if you're from Glasgow or Newcastle or wherever, the group atmosphere is already there.

Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in just a few blocks. It was a whole world in one city.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

Tottenham was a dope place to grow up because it's so community-based. It's a melting pot of cultures. I'll always be a north London girl.

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

There's just really interesting facets of culture just swirling in Morocco. They all have slightly different colours, so it's just an inspiring place to be.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city - there's Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there's African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans.

What I say is that there's this culture and this vibe and this community in Brooklyn that's so amazing and wonderful, and it has influence on the world. That's the part of Brooklyn that I love and I begin to miss.

I think it's important to learn about the culture of the place where you live.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

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

My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I am someone from Karnataka who could deliver.