Bill Bryson Quotes

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the former Soviet Union in a Russian school. I never went to an American school. There was a lot of culture shock when I moved back to the States when I was 17.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

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

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.