Albert Brooks Quotes

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

It's really important to go back to where you come from.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

I'm always in touch with where I'm from.

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

I grew up here with all other Hongkongers. My love for this place has prompted me to make many personal sacrifices.

I have put my heart and soul in 'Baaz.'

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

I really invest a lot... physically and emotionally on my work.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

You never forget where you come from.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

I love my heritage!

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.