Simona Halep Quotes

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.

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

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

A nation’s literature is the expression of a nation's mind in writing and the concentration of intellect for the purpose of spreading itself abroad and multiplying its energy

The French are a feminine race, not manly like the Anglo-Saxons or Teutons.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

Traveling through France in regular times, for better or worse, I am simply perceived as an American.

I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.