Emily Mortimer Quotes

If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.

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

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

When I moved to New York City from Israel, I came here with the idea to get a great job, have tons of fun, and make a lot of money. Growing up in Israel, I watched a lot of American TV, and I thought it's what the 'cool' people did, and I wanted the same thing.

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

Little America

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they should've stayed in their country.

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