In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!
Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.
There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
It's very American, making a lot of money.
