Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

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.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

Children are all foreigners.

I was born in Canada, and then my dad played pro soccer in England and then also on an island off the coast of Portugal. So we lived there for, like, 10 years. And then we moved to Minnesota. So I feel like I've experienced a lot of different cultures, and I'm still figuring out who I am.

I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.

I'll always be a foreigner.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

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

I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the former Soviet Union in a Russian school. I never went to an American school. There was a lot of culture shock when I moved back to the States when I was 17.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

I moved to London, and it's a cliche to say that London is a melting pot, but it's true - I didn't stand out anymore.

Since I moved to the U.K., it has been ten years almost, I have never had any issue. My boy, Jan, was born in London and people have been great to me. I have been really happy living here.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.