Rebecca Hall Quotes

I was born and raised in Derry and I can't change the way I talk.

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'

The fact that I'm on 'Essex Anthems' makes me happy, especially because half of my family's from Essex.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.

Fashion is something that brought me closer to my family as I grew up. It's something that was deep inside me, in my roots, and I started taking more interest as I grew older because it reminded me of my mother and my grandmother. It's not something I take lightly, and I'm going to be open about it.

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

When I'm in L.A., I'm part of the Irish community out there, and I just love it.

I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into.

It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I'm very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.