Quotes About Nationality

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

When I am in that lane, and I hear, 'Caster Semenya from South Africa,' I always know I am doing it for my people. They love and support me, and I will always do them proud; I will always put them first. Without them, I am nothing.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

South Africa is now my country.

I can't see myself playing anywhere else in the world. You don't know how much I want to play international cricket for South Africa.

I can't start off with the premise that a coach is better than me just because he's from Europe or South America.

I came to South Korea with a feeling of deep kinship, but people here perceive me only as a talbukja, someone of a different nationality.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

I was born in Spain.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

Spain is not a racist country.

I haven't done great things for Spain - I can't lie - but when I play well, they should say so. They criticise me for my character, but I also have quality.

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.