Alexandre Desplat Quotes

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I feel Anglo-American.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

My father came here from Mexico.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.

I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

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.

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

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

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

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.