American Quote by Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American,…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

— Robert Wolders

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or…

— Mark Frost

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

— Kurt Vonnegut

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

— Justin Trudeau

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

— Dinesh D'Souza

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

— Ioan Gruffudd

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got…

— Robert Webb

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

— Nick Park

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It…

— Hugh Laurie

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am…

— Henry Miller