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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."
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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."
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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."
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"I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie."
Kids
"People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters."
Love
"Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded."
Movies
"My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff."
Father
"I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week."
Night
"Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie."
Love
"I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic."
Love
"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic."
Experience
"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character."
Character
"Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny."
Funny
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