Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

India is home, and that's never going to change.

Anyone who does not say, 'I am Indian first and then a Tamilian,' is anti-national.

Standing up for national anthem doesn't make you an Indian. Posting flags on social networks doesn't make you an Indian.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

In 'Purab Aur Paschim,' there's one of the nicer patriotic scenes which is patriotic without going jingoistic. There's a scene set in a rotating restaurant, where Pran, who has left India, is completely running India down and Manoj Kumar is taking up for India. And there's that song 'Jab Zero Diya.'

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

I understand that it's always difficult for a national team to have a foreign manager. It's a nationalistic question that also flows into football.

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

Perhaps because I never left England and went to America - I think the public sort of appreciated that. I visited and I did some shows over there, but I never had any ambitions to settle over there. I could never have left England.

Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.