I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'
The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.
The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
