The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

The French complain of everything, and always.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.