Phillip Noyce Quotes

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I didn't know what country I represented anymore.

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

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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

In this war I am completely English.

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

I just wanted it to be American.

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

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

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.