Monique Roffey Quotes

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

I used to feel I was more French than anything, but I don't feel that way anymore. I really don't feel like I belong to a specific country, and it is so difficult for people to understand that.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.