Sophie Okonedo Quotes

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

I was born in Senegal in 1996. My mom moved to New York when I was two years old, so I was raised by my aunt back home.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.

I was born in London, and my family is here. America is an interesting place, but it's incredibly different culturally. It doesn't take long being there before I want to get back.

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

It was a difficult decision picking Nigeria over England.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.

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

Even though I moved to Florida, I'm still Polish.

I didn't realize I was living in a very unique situation until I became a culinary professional. For me, there was nothing out of the ordinary about spending half my day in Mexico, and the other half in California.

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

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

We immigrated when I was 3 1/2 years old, to Toronto. But I'm still very, very close to my culture and - back home in Egypt.

I've lived all my life in the U.S., but to be brutally honest, I don't really have any ties to the country apart from my mum and dad. Most of the rest of my family live in the Stockport area, and I've always related more to that side of my background.