Quotes About Nationality

I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

I'm a hugely proud Welsh person. I just love it - it's something very special, being Welsh.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one.

It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was funny that there was this war, like, 'No, she's ours, she's practically a Miss Australia.' But I am a Miss Philippines.

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference.

There was a lot of prejudice towards Russians in Latvia. When I went to school, often Latvians didn't like me, and Russians and Latvians didn't like Americans, so that was a whole other prejudice.

Being the best-paid in the Premier League fills me with pride at being Chilean.

I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.

I've played for England, played in the Olympics and made my Premier League debut.

You could say I've not been the same player for Ireland as I have in the Premier League.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

I'm enjoying it with Ireland, and I won't be pressured into playing for England.

If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

I'm from Denmark, so I like to support the Danes.

Everybody knows I'm Canadian, and I'm proud of that. I'll never deny that fact that I'm Canadian.