We had a lot of help when we got to America.
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.
I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.
What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
You know what this nation is? It's a disruptive start-up. It was a group of rich guys that got together and said, 'You know what? We're going to break away from the other countries and start our own country.'
I think I'll move to Australia.
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.
If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
I truly think if I had stayed in England, I'm not sure I would be coaching. So what America gave me was kind of a dream and the opportunity and ability to follow that path, which I really had never dreamed about. I just feel very fortunate to be here.
I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.
I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.
A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
I was almost 8 when my mother bravely brought her children to this country so we could have a chance at a better life.
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.
My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.
I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.
