Craig Bellamy Quotes

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

For me, representing Wales really was a dream.

John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself.

I'm a Welshman through and through.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

Derby born and bred, mate.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Welsh people are loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls.

Arkansas Comes First.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

I still think of myself as a Bostonian.

I think growing up in Santa Fe or Northern New Mexico in general instills a sense of humor in people, a sort of easygoing sense of not taking yourself too seriously, while still being very proud of where you come from, and that's something we all share.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe that the other parts of America couldn't possibly be as American as their part. You can see it in the way people in the South scrunch up their faces when they hear words like 'New York,' 'Chicago,' and 'challah.'

I'm from the 805, man. I don't have to talk about where I'm from, but I'm tough.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.