Quotes About Nationality

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

I'm an American except when I'm in the supermarket or at the candy store.

I'm gonna be a better McGregor. I'm gonna be the American superstar. He's the Ireland superstar.

A lot of the Indian supporters would have been born in Birmingham, have Birmingham accents. It is my home city as well. Second, third generations from the sub-continent still support India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Being English, being born in England, this is our home and we should be supporting our home country.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.

English people are always surprised I'm English.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that's my definition of Belgium.

I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore and also transcend your gender (and race and class and orientation and nationality and moment in history and age and ability) and experience being others.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

To be Russian was to be pessimistic; to be Soviet was to be optimistic.

Czechoslovakian

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

There is no country that has the best men.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.