Quotes About Belonging

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

I'm proud to be British.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

I'll always be a Brooklyn girl.

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.

One of the reasons I moved back to Brooklyn is to get to hang out with the guys I've known since we were 12, 13 years old. Having that sense of community is incredibly important to me.

I finally feel like I have an NBA home in Brooklyn.

It's a brotherhood coming from the intercity of Los Angeles.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.