International Background Quotes

I grew up in New York City and in London.

I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I have a clear bias for international, global experience. On my management team, everybody has two or three countries they've lived and worked in.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

Though Mohyeldin's journalistic reputation continues to grow - born in Egypt, raised in Michigan, started as a gofer for NBC News, reared as a producer at CNN, first appeared on-camera for Al Jazeera in 2006 - his is hardly a household name, not in America at least.

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too 'liberal' to be happy with that job.

Yes, I have an Australian wife; she is half Bengali, half British.

Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.

I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a child because I had an uncle who was an actor. I wanted to do everything he did, and he told me to learn how to dance first. So then I learned how to dance.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.