Akhil Sharma Quotes

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

I was born on the island of Singapore, and I grew up there until I was 11 years old, when I was forcibly removed by my dad and planted into suburban Houston. I was in shock for the first year and then began to really love it - but didn't love it quite enough to stay.

It's hard when you are trying to ingratiate yourself in a completely foreign world. It takes a long time.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

Leaving home early is always complicated. But when I arrived in Germany, I encountered an incredible structure built by the company that takes care of my career. They did not leave me wanting for anything. The most complicated thing was really the language. Otherwise, everything was taken care of.

My family lived under communism their entire lives. When they arrived in South Korea, they didn't even know how to use the bank system and ATM or the subway, nothing.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.

It is not always easy to change country.

I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me.

The first season in a new country like England is very difficult.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

I'm from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

My favorite movie is 'Coming to America.' It's a great movie! Eddie Murphy. Arsenio Hall. It kind of reflects my life - being from Canada and coming to America. I can kind of relate to it.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.