Amanda Nunes Quotes

My dad's Australian.

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

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

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

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.

… the tendency, reprehensible and paradoxical as it might be, has been for the national clusters of immigrants, as they became more and more firmly established and more and more prosperous, to cultivate more and more assiduously the literatures and cultural traditions of their homelands. Assimilation, in other words, instead of washing out the memories of Europe, made them more and more intensely real. Just as these clusters became more and more objectively American, did they become more and more German or Scandinavian or Bohemian or Polish.

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.

My father came here from Mexico.

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

We're a nation of immigrants.

Sometimes people say to me, 'Ah, you're not really Spanish; you're British.'

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

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

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.