Molly Antopol Quotes

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

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 recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'

I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

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

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

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

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

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

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

My son will be an American, but I remain French.

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

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.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

A lot of people say I'm not Mexican because I don't speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it's at. Mexico's in my blood, in my DNA. It's in my kids' DNA.

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 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 feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.