Stana Katic Quotes

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.

I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

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.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

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

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

Some say there is no uniquely Canadian identity, that our multicultural fabric is too varied to establish a common thread. I disagree. My grandfather came to a country that celebrates diversity, embraces strife with compassion and respects selfless idealism.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.

My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia, so we were raised there.

Canada has this really cool way - specifically Toronto - of encouraging you to wave both flags: if you've been born there, like, wave your flag and then wave your parent's flag, too, and be proud of it.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.