Malin Akerman Quotes

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

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

I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.

While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I write in the English language and live in the U.K. I find it hard to say that I am an entirely British writer, especially when I supported Trinidad in the 2006 World Cup and also support the West Indies cricket team.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.