Olivier Martinez Quotes

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

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel 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.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

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 do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

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 am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

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

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

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

I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the former Soviet Union in a Russian school. I never went to an American school. There was a lot of culture shock when I moved back to the States when I was 17.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

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

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

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