Typical American Quotes

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

I just think I'm the average all-American girl.

In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.

I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.