Air Quote by Mary McCarthy

The Americans don't like the American look but the Europeans just eat it up.

— Ashley Hinshaw

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

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

— Kristen Bell

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

— Max Irons

“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor…

— Mary McCarthy

It made me sad to notice there's more American culture in society. It's about having their eyebrows groomed, pedicures, being more conscious about being…

— Renee Zellweger

I think most Americans, when we're building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.

— LaTanya Richardson

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is…

— Marquis de Lafayette

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of…

— Ian Mckellen

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now…

— Fareed Zakaria

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

— Kevin McKidd

Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as…

— Alfred Hamilton Barr