When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.
My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.
I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.
I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.
I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.
I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
When I came to Australia in 1987 as an adoptee from India, I could not have had any idea where my life journey would take me.
I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.
I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories.
Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.
Some of my scripts need the larger catchment area of Bollywood. But some suit Telugu films.
My maternal grandfather was born in Yorkshire in England but was contracted to work for a company who had a base in Colombia. So they moved across to Santa Martre, and they liked it very much. It was a sunny place with beaches and a seafront, so they never went back to England and preferred to stay in Colombia.
I was born in America and have lived a long time in England. I wish prosperity to both.
My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took me to Paris and then other places throughout Western Europe.
Gozu' was influenced by American cinema.
Emigration is always a difficulty.
I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.
Basically... I think moving abroad would be good for my professional and personal well-being. Eventually, I'd like to leave the Bundesliga.
What works in Chattanooga now works in the Sixth Arrondissement of Paris; it’s a little sad.
