Thornton Wilder Quotes

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

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

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.

I lived in Italy for two months when I was in college. And I traveled to Paris. I traveled to Egypt. I traveled to Spain. I just would travel a lot. I remember going to Paris and saying, speaking French, 'I would like some chicken and some fries.' And just the chicken and fries was, oh my gosh, just so amazing. I became intrigued and inspired.

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.