Gabriella Wilde Quotes

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

I was raised in France, and the American culture was present everywhere. On TV, on the radio.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

To the world, you are America.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.