Andrzej Duda Quotes

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

My father's family is German and Czech.