Svetlana Alliluyeva Quotes

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Mexicans are not assertive about themselves like Americans. They are shy about themselves

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

It's amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.

I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.

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

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

But there is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

Maybe in America there's more of an emphasis on food than there should be. But when I look out at the audience during a competition, some people are shocked, but most people are smiling.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.