Nick Woodman Quotes

I'm full Hispanic.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

Cultural background surely plays a part in shaping identity; but it does not determine identity.

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

I consider myself half Spanish.

I am half Cuban American.

I get that question almost more than any other. Once people feel a little comfortable, they're always like, 'So, what, uh, uh, what, um, what's your ethnicity?'

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

I love my heritage!

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.