Miriam Margolyes Quotes

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.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

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

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

Nationalism is spiritual and all-embracing, in the sense that it opens its arms to and spreads its wings over all those who have shared with the Arabs their history and have lived in the environment of their language and culture for generations, so that they have become Arab in thought and feeling. There is no fear that nationalism will clash with religion, for, like religion, it flows from the heart and issues from the will of God; they walk arm in arm, supporting each other, especially when religion represents the genius of the nationality and is in harmony with its nature.

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.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

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

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'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I've always felt very English.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society; it is a product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

I don't know what it is to feel very British, but I feel that it's home, so I'm very happy to represent Great Britain.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.