Lily Collins Quotes

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

I am a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.

I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.

I don't have a place anywhere but Australia; I just don't spend much time there.

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

Australia is my birth home, so it will always be a home of some sort. But I'm very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home, and that is where my heart is. That is where I grew up, essentially. So when people ask me where I'm from, where is home, that's where it is.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

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