Gabriel Byrne Quotes

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.

We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even then, I always felt strangely out of place and alien.

When I'm in Brazil, I'm not Brazilian at all; I am a gringo. And then when I'm in England, I'm not really English, but when I lived in Canada, I was considered too English. So I never really felt like I clicked somewhere or that I belonged to one place.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

I'll always be a foreigner.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.