Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

I grew up in the small town of Haywards Heath, south of London.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and - as is true of some other English cities - more than half of London's inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.

I grew up in the States and Canada for a while because my mum came over in the 1970s. We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and then moved to Canada for a few more.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is.

I simply love to live here. London is a world city. There is so much you can do. There are many different cultures here, and I just feel very, very comfortable.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It's got a bit busier since the '60s, but the more the merrier!

I grew up traveling quite a bit, and I think that, because of that, my design inspiration is a mish-mash of all different places and styles.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

I love being a foreigner.

I am from L.A., my siblings are from L.A., but both my parents are from Guatemala, and I have a lot of family members from Mexico.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.