Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

A writer without his country is nothing.

The more I am French, the more I feel a part of humanity.

I am a son of the Chechen people. I am no different from anyone else.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

There is no nation in the world greater, older or more honorable than the Turkish nation, nor has one been seen in the history of humanity.

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

The pride I feel in representing my people, no matter where I am, is never going to diminish. I could be in Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt or even Las Vegas, I'll always be representing my people.