Willy Caballero Quotes

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

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

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.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

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

I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

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.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.

I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.

You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent. People assumed I was Egyptian.

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.

I'll always be a foreigner.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

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

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 Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.