Trevor Moore Quotes

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

It is often not even wise to try to make an American of the best of aliens.

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

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.'

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

I'm an adopted Mancunian. This city has grown on me. I have a wife from Manchester and have three kids who think they are more Mancuniuan than anything else, which is a problem I need to address!

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

I think people look at me and realize that I am definitely not in line to the throne. It feels very easy living in Great Britain. The world is a much smaller place than it used to be, it doesn't feel like a huge cultural difference living here.

Most of the discrimination I have encountered centered on the view that I am not a part of this great nation, even though I grew up in Ohio, graduated from law school in Washington, D.C., and received my commission in the U.S. Air Force in 1991.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

Maharashtrians in America have a Maharashtra mandal every year. You know when they celebrate it? On July 4, the American Independence Day. That's respect for local culture.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.