Quotes About Nationality

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

I saw my country first. Because, whoever gets up into space from whichever nationality, the first thing they do is they look out for their country. That is what I did. The Indian peninsula with the ocean on all three sides. And it was a beautiful sight.

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.

Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?

Playing for Australia, if they told me at 36 or 37 or whatever I'm going to be, that I can go to camp and possibly make a fifth Olympics, then why not?

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.