Louie Anderson Quotes

American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.

Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.

'Grey's' has this universal, global thing to it. It works all over the world.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven't worked so well because people don't know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it's quite challenging. So those are the problems you have.

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that can be accepted as part of larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

Every one loves his country, his manners, his language, his wife, his children; not because they are the best in the World, but because they are absolutely his own, and he loves himself and his own labors in them.

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

We have to make movies where we do not think this is for the American market or this is for the Chinese market. We have to make a good movie that anyone would just want to sit down and watch because love, language, culture transcend everything.

In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.

We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.

My parents are my world.

It's amazing because wrestling is global. No matter where we go in the world, it brings in the same love and response everywhere. It brings in so many different diversities and people from different walks of life.

My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

Fashion is something that brought me closer to my family as I grew up. It's something that was deep inside me, in my roots, and I started taking more interest as I grew older because it reminded me of my mother and my grandmother. It's not something I take lightly, and I'm going to be open about it.

What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.

The audiences everywhere feel the same emotions. That's why when movies do well in an industry, they become popular all over.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.

I can understand my popularity with the Indian diaspora, but I do get surprised when non-Indians recognise my music.

The love and pride that I feel from my Indian fan base make every new performance in India unique and special.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.