Michael Scott Quotes

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

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

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

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

I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.

My father's family is German and Czech.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

Nationality isn't soul.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

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

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