Robbie Coltrane Quotes

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

We should accept diversity and pluralism and learn to live in them, and learn how to grow in them, without losing our identity and compromising ourselves

Some day an Italian and a Jew will be mayors of New York, and the Italian will come first.

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

I'm a really proud, happy Canadian. I think we've got it figured out in our country. For example, gay marriage has just been legalized in all of the U.S. and it's like, 'Wow, hashtag lovewins,' but that's not necessarily a leap forward compared to what we've already experienced in Canada years ago.

You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.

There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.

New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

What makes America great is that we're all so different.

When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.

I never think of people's nationality too much. I always look at everybody the same. It's impossible for me to just say one group of people over separate groups of people. Maybe it's because I was raised in New York City which is this melting pot. Everybody was always the same and the whole point of my whole film existence was to say that we're just one race.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!