Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

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

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

But my parents picked Ft. Wayne, which was the best decision because if they had brought me to New York or Philly, I would have swam back to Trinidad!

When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.

I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

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'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

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

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

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