Aleksandar Mitrovic Quotes

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Something happens when two people from the same country, sharing the same heritage, meet and connect.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

In every country I've gone to, if you smile at people, they are going to be happy. This is my attitude.

Growing up, I would go to Darjeeling and Kurseong a lot and most of the locals would only talk to me in Nepali!

I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.

Young Asian people who come up to me have a certain vibration, and I receive it, and I understand it, and I feel emotional just talking about it. I'm here for you. And I'll continue doing everything I can to fill something that I know you need right now that we don't yet have as a community.

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

My family is very international.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve.

There was a place I visited in Lahore that felt to me like old Delhi, and I'm sure Pakistanis who come from Lahore to Delhi feel the same.

There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me.

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.