Zawe Ashton Quotes

I'm an adopted Mancunian. This city has grown on me. I have a wife from Manchester and have three kids who think they are more Mancuniuan than anything else, which is a problem I need to address!

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

I feel like a Nice citizen: it's my hometown. I come back to the city to spend time there because it's in my DNA.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

I don't live in London. I live in the place that I sing about.

It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

I am who I am, a Southie.

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move.

Cleveland has been my life.

Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.