Amber Liu Quotes

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.

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.

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

Life in England was a bit difficult. It is not easy for a South American. Some people get on fine, and for others, it is harder to adapt.

Beveren helped me a lot to adjust to Europe.

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.

I'm Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.

It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

I am American. If you drop me in Seoul, I don't think I'm going to thrive there.

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.