Diego Luna Quotes

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I hold both of them with equal amounts of pride. I feel just as strongly and equally Mexican as I do American.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

We quarrel with no man for being a foreigner, but we recognize the moral right in no class of American citizens to train up their children to be foreigners, and then to claim for them all the rights, franchises, and immunities of American citizens.

I'm asking the Israelis to choose their nationality. It doesn't mean that if they don't choose French nationality, they have to leave.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

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

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

I am not an African. I am an American.

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.