U.s. Culture Quotes

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

I love the energy in the U.S., you know. Everyone is really psyched. You feel really privileged to be there.

In England, gossiping is not as commonplace or even celebrated as much as it is in Latino culture. But it is not as frowned upon as it is in the United States by U.S. Americans.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

I think the U.S. has ultrasensitivity about weight loss.

You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.

Audiences in the U.S. can sometimes be a lot less refined. If they like something, they tend to express it more loudly.

It took me a while to figure out the U.S. sense of humor, a lot of trial and error. I would write down jokes to casually tell my American friend over Skype to see which ones he'd laugh at.