Quotes About Belonging

In Blackburn where I grew up, there was no other black children.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

Elk Grove will always be home.

Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

I'm never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids will be proud to grow up in.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

It's quite hard sometimes coming into a show where everybody's quite cliquey, where everybody's been set for a number of years and you're the guest star. It's quite difficult, it's nervewracking in a way.

'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

Pretty much every gym I go into, I feel very comfortable. I dump my stuff, take my shoes off, do my thing.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.