Quotes About Belonging

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

When you're abroad, you always miss your country.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.

As an adult, you want to connect with people, and you want to feel accepted.

The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.

It means a lot to be accepted as an athlete as I have and I can be myself.

It's great that now people can be accepted and the LGBT community can open up and share with the people where they come from.

I feel like it has been a journey throughout the years to be accepting of my culture - I always felt different and not as accepting of it.

I feel like L.A. is my actual home.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home.

Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

My boys are Cornish because they were all born there, but Im quite happy just to be an admirer.

I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.