Alphonso Davies Quotes

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

London made my family and myself.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

Toronto has been home to me and my family for almost 5 years. I arrived here from Italy in January 2015 and immediately felt something special.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.

I'll always be a foreigner.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I look at Canada like a second home.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.