Clark Blaise Quotes

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I've always felt very English.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

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

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

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

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

At the end of the day, I'm from Canada, and so there will never be a time when I'm suddenly not Canadian.

I did have a chance to box for Pakistan, but I've lived here all my life, gone to school; all my coaches and everyone's here, and I feel English.