Global Outlook Quotes

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in terms of pop culture and global and social outlook.

You see a lot of managers who are working and yet are already talking about other countries and other teams. But that's not for me.

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Cultural differences - they are definitely vast in some ways. But I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."

In life, you always look at the total picture, not just a segment of it.

We believe that anything and everything is possible, regardless if it's a domestic or international project.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.

I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.

Genius of great affairs abhors nicety of division