Ben Schnetzer Quotes

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

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

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker."

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

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.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

Israel is not a European country and doesn't consider itself as such.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.

A lot of people don't think I'm English. I've lived in France, and people do think I'm French, but I don't see myself as having a glamorous look.

I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.

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

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