Zubin Mehta Quotes

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

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

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

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.

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

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.

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.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

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

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

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

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

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.

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

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

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

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.