Quotes About Nationality

If there's a Filipino flag waving, will.i.am whispers to me, 'Filipinos are over there!' And then I wave towards that direction.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.

We cannot have this porous border, where people come in and out; we don't know who they are.

We cannot sustain illegal immigration in perpetuity. It will not work for our country.

Only a good actor has an edge over a weak actor. A hardworking actor has an edge over a lazy actor. Nationality has nothing to do with it.

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

I competed in different places all over the world. I represented my country in the Pan-American championships.

The more players who come through the academy and make it into the first team, that's what we want. Not just for the club but for the country. If they're young English players coming through, that's fantastic. I'm happy to be part of that.

I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on the radio and being quite shocked that he had a South African accent. I didn't know there were any South African poets.

They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

I'm very British at heart. When I come to England, I say I'm coming home, and then it's funny: when I leave England to go back to L.A., I also say I'm going back home.