Line #40 Quotes/FakeNationality


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5	->''"Eye wezh bohrne endh raizhed en thu deshurt!"''
6	-->-- '''Music/CaptainBeefheart'''
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8	->Get rid of that accent.
9	-->-- '''Hilly Kristal''' to Merv Ferguson, ''Film/{{CBGB}}'''''
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11	->You're all from Nebraska! Cut it out!
12	-->-- '''Mike Nelson''' about three characters, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E18TheAtomicBrain Mystery Science Theater 3000, "The Atomic Brain"]]''
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18	->Another mafioso role for me. This time I played the head of Smoke Enders, [[SeriousBusiness using Mafia techniques to make people quit smoking]]. Dino De Laurentiis, the producer, had seen me impersonate wise guys in other movies, and he swore I was Italian.\
19	[[KosherNostra "No, I'm Jewish."]]\
20	"Unh-huh. You gotta be Italian, you got every gesture. Maybe your grandfather?"\
21	"No, my grandfather was Jewish, from Russia."\
22	"''His'' father?"\
23	He simply would not take my word for it.
24	-->--'''Creator/AlanKing''' on ''Film/CatsEye'' (1985), ''Name Dropping''
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26	->'''Creator/BeverlyDAngelo:''' I'm a very, very, very Italian girl. My grandmother was a letter-bride, came over when she was 15; my grandfather came over, built railroads; I went to school in Italy; I ''speak'' Italian; I ''lived'' there '81-'85; my first husband...I'm as Italian as you can get, and I have ''never'' gotten offered or even considered for an Italian part! Because I don't ''act'' like what everybody thinks an Italian person acts like!\
27	'''Creator/CathyMoriarty:''' I'm not even Italian; I'm full-blooded Irish and I always get cast as Italian.\
28	'''D'Angelo:''' I would KILL for an Italian role!
29	-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsiXXqllOfI Dinner For Five]]''
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31	->In ''Literature/TheReader'', [[Creator/KateWinslet Kate]], English, plays a German, nominated.\
32	In ''Film/TropicThunder'', Creator/RobertDowneyJr, who was an American, playing an Australian, playing an African-American, nominated.\
33	Where's me?\
34	I'm an Australian, playing an Australian in a movie called ''Film/{{Australia}}''... [[AwardSnub hosting.]]
35	-->-- '''Creator/HughJackman''''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Terhj8mjPwY opening monologue]] for the 81st UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s
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37	->I started out on Broadway in the original production of ''Yentl'' and won awards for it, and then when the move came out with Music/BarbraStreisand they said, 'We wanna do it authentically, we wanna put all-Jewish people in the cast'....I went, 'I just did it for a year on Broadway!', and they said,'[[VaudevilleHook We don't care!]] You're Irish-Catholic!'
38	-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr6jPBN7dPw John Shea]]'''
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40	->We've got an American show with a Kiwi playing an all-American hero psychopath and another Kiwi playing an Englishman. It's a pretty bizarre mix-up.
41	-->-- '''Creator/AntonyStarr''' on him and '''Creator/KarlUrban''' starring in ''Series/TheBoys2019''
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47	->I'm starting to get the feeling that Suki Yaki's actor, '''George Stone''', isn't really Japanese.
48	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''', ''The Devil with Hitler''
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50	->Either [[Creator/StevenSeagal Seagal]] is the biggest fraud on the planet or he genuinely happens to transcend race and transforms into new ethnicities over time, kind of like a fucked up [[Series/DoctorWho Dr Who]].
51	-->--[[http://theflyingguillotine.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/the-ridiculousness-of-steven-seagal-part-1/ "The Ridiculousness of Steven Seagal"]]
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53	->'''Chris''': To be fair, it’s pretty understandable why Liu Kang would think that Raiden was a fraud, since most Japanese thunder gods don’t tend to look like French dudes.\
54	'''Matt''': Raiden was born in the United States, educated in the Swiss Alps, and then moved to Japan to become a god. [[MST3KMantra Makes perfect sense.]]
55	-->--Chris Sims and Matt Wilson [[http://comicsalliance.com/mortal-kombat-movie-review/ on]] ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''
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57	->Most of the reason for the mockery is for [[Creator/NicolasCage Nic Cage]] and his over the top Italian accent. '[[IncomingHam BELLA BAMBINA AT TWO O CLOCK!]]' You know, I don’t begrudge an actor who knows he can’t do a dignified job with an accent and just speaks English. In fact, I admire him. It’s when we get attempts like this that [[{{Narm}} we really laugh]]. I kept expecting Nic to exclaim '[[AdvertisingCampaigns That’s a spicy meat-a-ball!]]' at the end of every line.
58	-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/captain-corelli%E2%80%99s-mandolin-2001-john-madden/ on]] ''Literature/CaptainCorellisMandolin'' (2001)
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60	->But there's nothing, and I mean nothing more hilarious than watching Creator/MichelleRodriguez scowl and [[FakeBrit attempt a British accent]]. It's like watching your mother try to open a can of pickles.
61	-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/bloodrayne/ on]] ''Film/{{Bloodrayne}}''
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63	->One of the prisoners is Samantha Mendez (Steph Song). Right. If her last name is Mendez, then I’m Kamala Muta Hassan. At least Paul Diamond put a mask on when he was part of The Orient Express. No way you could tell he was a donut-eating, curling-loving, moose-riding Canucklehead.
64	-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''', [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/induction-maximum-conviction-fortunately-also-minimum-seagal/ "Maximum Convinction" - Fortunately Also Minimum Seagal"]]
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66	->They should’ve known that ''{{Film/Aloha}}'' wouldn't end well as soon as Creator/EmmaStone was cast as a woman named Allison Ng who is a quarter Hawaiian, a quarter Chinese and a quarter Swedish. The Swedish part must have eaten the Chinese and Hawaiian parts.
67	-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/05/31/that-movie-where-emma-stone-plays-part-asian-only-made-10-million-this-weekend/ Michael K.]]''', "That Movie Where Emma Stone Plays Part-Asian Only Made $10 Million"
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69	->David Carradine is {{Music/Elvis\|Presley}} of kung fu, having the honorable distinction of helping to pioneer western martial arts movies only by virtue of blatant racism. He is most famous for playing the lead in the 1970s kung fu serial, creatively titled ''Series/{{Kung Fu\|1972}}'', winning the part from Creator/BruceLee, even though Lee helped create the show for the sole purpose of acting in it. Apparently no one told Bruce that at that time Chinese people were considered 'too Chinese' to play Chinese people.
70	-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15819_5-movie-martial-artists-that-lost-deathmatch-to-dignity_p2.html#ixzz31rHuApc0 "5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity"]]
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72	->I will say one thing negative about Boreanaz’s otherwise stellar performance, and that is his Irish accent needs some more work and is barely comprehensible at times (although this [[OnSecondThought isn’t entirely untrue]] of Irish enunciation).
73	-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/buffy-season-two.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
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75	->Creator/PatrickStewart is British, Jean-Luc Picard is French. That said, he’s played straightforwardly in an English accent, and the constant sense is that Gene Roddenberry may have had a [[GlobalIgnorance somewhat hazy]] sense of the fact that there was a material difference.
76	-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/08/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
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78	->Imagine [[Film/TheLastSamurai a movie about an honorable samurai clan filmed in New Zealand and starring an American]]. Am I the only person who sees a problem with this? Where do we draw the line? I mean, why not make a movie about Zulu warriors starring James Hong? Or a movie about US Marines starring drunken kung-fu master Simon Yuen?
79	-->-- '''Maddox''', "[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=five_shitty_movies Five shitty movies that everyone loves.]]"
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81	->Creator/ChrisPratt is a gentile and as such is not party to the 1947 treaty between Jews and Italians that allows us to play each other in movies. He does not come from a yelling-based culture.
82	-->-- '''[[https://twitter.com/bobbybigwheel/status/1441176014642561025 BobbyBigWheel]]''' on Website/{{Twitter}}
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